COMMON FOLK, COMMON THREADS
"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."
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"Under her own name and as the Places, the powerfully affecting songwriter Amy Annelle has quietly put together a body of work that rates with anything you (or anybody) would call 'Americana'. Ghosts and the living mingle in her songs, as well as a multitude of choice covers, and few artists get closer to the ineffable essence of this land of ours in all its great and awful beauty. Expect to hear plenty of new songs written way out there in the Oklahoma Panhandle."
"If there’s one thing we Americanos do right, folks, its take our natural resources for granted, which is exactly what seems to be the case with one of our most woefully unsung national treasures, the Places, a.k.a. Amy Annelle and company. Her voice is strong and lilting, her aesthetic warm and grim, and it all amounts to transcendent and darkly jubilant modern folk. Fortunately, Amy takes nothing and no one for granted, and surrounds herself with some incredible musicians for live renditions of album songs and occasional other treats. Accompanying her at Hotel Utah was a violin and an upright bass, with deaths and desires under the mossy logs of her songs coming through just as clear as the joy in every strum and boot-stomp. The fiddler was Ralph White, formerly of Austin oddball bluegrass band the Bad Livers. A gem in his own right, Ralph performed solo on accordion and banjo after the Places’ set and will soon be collaborating with Amy on a project as a duo. They played with every bit of gumption as they would by the fire or in front of a crowd of thousands"
"Songs for Creeps" has a crumbling, dank feeling, but Annelle's vocals have a strong, clear edge to them, a slight twangy catch of a lost past returning to a new century"