AMY ANNELLE (the places): here
New Amy Annelle album has been mixed...
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"In roughly 10 years, Annelle has never made a bad album. In fact, she’s made nothing but a string of exceptionally solid and beautifully forlorn albums...her songs roam through states of brooding, tradition, clamor, and cheer, each branded by the fire of her voice—storm-honed, jagged, and ageless as driftwood..." (Howard Wyman, Crawdaddy)
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AMY ANNELLE SXSW 2009 showcase
Friday 3.20 |8:30 PM|
Music Gym
815 E. 6th Street
i play a set of all new unrecorded material at a party:
Saturday, March 21 11 PM
104 Chicon Street (just E of Cesar Chavez)
Austin, Texia
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PRECIOUS BLOOD SXSW 2009 showcase
Sat 3.21 |8 PM| no amps, no PA...no foolin'
Victorian Room @ the Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street
MAIL ORDER Precious Blood "TOP OF THE HOLLER" (Amy Annelle & Ralph White old folk & country duo) Field Recording, limited edition of 250. 
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It was really something, this last tour of America's oft-overlooked
Great Plains (and some mountains too). Summoning songs with you in
abandoned churches, art spaces, backyards and the odd dive bar. Thank
you for being capacitors, and making it happen.
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fiends in new york city and her satellite hamlets!
won't you come to my final new york show of three?
AMY ANNELLE
with Ralph White, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez
TONIGHT Sat 7/12/08
Knitting Factory (tap room)
74 leonard st.
isle of manhattan, new york city
www. knittingfactory. com
doors at 7. AA set at 9:30.
this is a glimpse of all new songs, from an album soon to come.
a magic maiden will be with me as special guest,
she will touch her bow of ponyhair to the fiddle strings;
the storm will still, will conjure things
hear them sing, o hear them sing
yours truly,
amy annelle
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a bee buzzing around town had a look around says it might come down to
this: a pack of mules falling from a ledge into the abyss. two
separate storms speaking lightning together over the high plains. a
refractory pattern and an overtone. a whole lot of feedback and then,
static.
AA will be singing in Jandek's band for his SXSW performance Saturday
March 15, 2008.
Jandek show info here:
http://2008.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/69298.html
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A new duo of Ralph White & Amy Annelle:
PRECIOUS BLOOD. digging deep in the traditional music game bag for
the ones with the lean muscles and the beautiful hide.
Precious Blood has a new myspace music page:
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2008 is happening. did you see the space lattice the night it turned,
smoke curling around your head, your breath a slow and steady stream
of white?
not long before dawn i rose in the hay field. the cedar waxwings
flocked around. we were scratching the dirt for seeds, tossing fermented
bushberries into the air and swallowing them whole, wheezing tenderly
to each other through bandit masked beaks. there was plenty to eat,
oh there was plenty to eat.
next, i was a human walking a meadow with no paths or fencelines. i
found an old horseshoe in the dust and hung it on my wrist. my
pockets bulged with fine specimens of igneous incidents, of earthly
metamorphosis.
i picked up speed and let the wind lift me. south, to drift cross a
mountain range i'd seen in a dream. i drank from the creek upstream
from where my hides were softening. and the light, the light got
gold. a portentious start. take heart.
have a look at two new photo zines:
"Fever Dream Winter Tour" and
"Twenty Square Feet of Shady Lane"
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11.6--11.18.2007 The Places bring the MUSICAL FEVER DREAM out for a MIDWEST TOUR:
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8.24--9.20.07 The Places, Ralph White embark on HIGH PLAINS AND PEAKS WESTERN US TOUR
Most dates with the great Michael Hurley
see shows page for details!
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THE PLACES IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
"Like genuine folk singers before...Annelle makes music borne up from the land. Keen, empathetic observers, they seem to move, like ghosts, through walls and locked doors and into the homes and lives of men and women they'll never be, yet whose stories are somehow always in part their own -- and our own."
read the whole Billboard article here
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COME ON OUT, NEW YORK CITYZENS!
THE PLACES with SPECIAL GUEST RALPH WHITE @ Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City
Friday July 13, 2007 9:30 PM
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Greetings from Six Feet Under the Underground!
...or make that Five and a Half Feet, as The Places are featured in an NPR broadcast
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it was a cold and starry dark, a month or so back at brenda's shack, which is unlike any other home base ever created. brenda is an extrordinary creature who's gone to great lengths to create a suitable habitat. a pad with the appropriate paramaters, paleattes and textures. there's furs and claws, adornments from a dozen decades and a dozen foreign lands. it's a mongolian yurt in an urban yard, there's lamb and millet and lentils from a propane stove and small glasses of red wine and kombucha tea. the books that line the walls all have red spines. a gentlemen who knows what's best might follow a sign suggesting a climb to the top of the loft.
the inestimable jolie holland was there that night. the evening was whiled away in gentle celebration. jolie and i got to trading songs. and jana and brenda were listening, and chris is a filmmaker, so his camera saw things, and secretly captured these twilit pixels. it's a video of an unreleased song of mine called "Everyone Has Spoken". that's jolie's guitar and brenda's belongings abstrusely illuminating everything.
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SONGS FOR CREEPS
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE CRITIC'S CHOICE: TOP ALBUMS OF 2006 (Susan Visakowitz)
"Amy Annelle is a brilliant desert troubadour with a dark and compelling vision"~~Brian Baker, Amplifier Magazine
"Conventionally this record might be folk, psychadelic, avant-pop--more or less undefinable--but most of all it's got a grip on the sprawling, strange, optimistic, terrifying feel of open-road America."~~David Snyder, IndieFolkForever
"...consistently eschews the tried-and-true...a prog-pastoralist vortex of charm"~~Rod Smith, Timeout NY
"A starkly beautiful collection of dark avant-folk wanderings that can be eerily quiet and breathtaking, Songs For Creeps mirrors the nomadic lifestyle of its maker...utilizing vintage equipment and instruments, found sounds like bird calls and ghostly Native American chanting, and her own sweet voice, Annelle crafts wonderfully weird, macabre songs about fading love, murderous intentions, seers and midnight explorations" Peter Linblad, Goldmine Magazine
SONGS FOR CREEPS the new original album from The Places. Produced by Brian Beattie with Amy Annelle. Additional recording by Jay Pellicci. Album art & design by E*Rock. Streaming and downloads deprive you of the full release of an album encounter. Mail order your triple-gatefold-sleeved beauty today. Pick it up and put it down. Look at the art, see the ink and light diffuse. Read the lyrics as it plays. Touch something to make it go or stop. Then, file according to your Inividual Music Phylogeny.
MAIL ORDER 'Songs For Creeps' WITH PAYPAL
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...also recently released on High Plains Sigh:
'FAWNS WITH FANGS: SELECTIONS FROM THE DARK HEART OF THE THICKET' The Places covers album
SPINNING FREELY ON WFMU---WNUR---KDVS---WPRB---KGNU and in your mind.
"...not the usual premeditated studio covers album: it's more of an accidental self-portrait, drawn from a wealth of live recordings and home 4-track sessions. The album digs deep into the hallowed underground of British and American folk and psychedelic rock--with a few wild cards mixed in"
Handmade and numbered, CDR in gatefold sleeve w/ booklet.
TO MAIL ORDER 'Fawns With Fangs' with 'PAYPAL'
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and we will exchange latitudes and longitudes.