Not Good Enough

Producer Josh Grange (Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang) has brought a dreamy and evocative sound to Anne McCue. The recording is warm, analog and nostalgic, describing a dream of escape. 

“Cities and faces 
We won’t see again
We'll go anywhere 
The restless wind blows
Live in the places
Nobody goes
We’ll be the ones nobody knows…"

McCue and Grange had been friends in Los Angeles and recently crossed paths again in Nashville, where they are both now based. 

Josh Grange, who has played with Dwight Yoakam and k.d. lang, now plays pedal steel with Sheryl Crow. On some rare down time, McCue visited his ‘Resistor’ studio near Music Row, Nashville. 

“I played Josh a song I had written with David Olney and John Hadley. He suggested I put in a B flat chord and we were off and running. He became co-writer, producer and co-conspirator in a matter of minutes,” says McCue.

Anne McCue has recently been producing other artists including Scott Miller (The V-Roys), Emma Swift and Ellen Starski.  
She also filled the 4th band member guitarist slot on Robyn Hitchcock’s eponymous album (Yep Roc 2017) and has recently been touring 
as lead guitarist with Miller. 
“It’s nice to get back to my own thing again,” says McCue, “although I love working with other people on their music. It's exciting to have a new single out!" 

McCue also co-wrote the title track of David Olney’s latest album and is host of Songs On The Wire on WXNA fm Nashville.

The new single “Fall Through The Cracks” will be released on Flying Machine Records September 21st, 2018 with the video to be released shortly thereafter.

Fall Through The Cracks

From the debut album, Poor Virginia. 

"When he married poor Virginia, the sweetest girl in town..."

Trouble

Bluesy songstress and multi-instrumentalist Anne McCue has just released her 6th studio album - Blue Sky Thinkin'  - recorded with co-producer Dusty Wakeman  (Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam) in Los Angeles. . The album reunites the band from her critically acclaimed 'Roll' album and allows Anne to explore some of her favourite influences, including Billy Holiday, Charlie Christian, Howlin' Wolf...
Alternative Country icon Lucinda Williams has said of McCue: “Initially, her stunning voice hooked me in. Then I got inside the songs. The first chance I got, I went to see her perform . . . I was floored!" 

"... with references to Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday and Gershwin, among others, this gorgeous album showcases McCue’s songwriting, torch-like vocals and brilliant, mostly-acoustic guitar mastery." ELMORE MAGAZINE

"A true depiction of McCue’s Southern charm, the album shines with a genuine bluesy, folk rock sound... Perceivably effortless, McCue continued to impress with a mastering of both guitar and vocals and at one point retrieved a sliding guitar for the song “Hangman.”" AUSTIN FUSION MAGAZINE

"McCue uses swing elements (last prominent in pop music circa the late ‘90s) and an elegiac New Orleans sensibility to create a cyclonic atmosphere, a controlled chaos of swirling guitar work and tempered horns resulting in an inferno of sound... Knock on wood, but Anne McCue’s time has arrived on what is her most realized album to date." THE SECOND DISC

"An Australian transplant currently calling Nashville home, Anne McCue took a musical detour on sixth album Blue Sky Thinkin’, a candidate for her strongest work ever. Known for her guitar prowess, she expands into jazz and swing in the style of Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian, adding horns and keyboards for color." AUSTIN CHRONICLE

"Both the mood and the music lend themselves to imagery involving booze, bravado and bordellos, but McCue’s perky attitude and the colorful paintings that adorn the album’s cover suggest more of a mischievous intent." BLURT MAGAZINE

"... her own batch of standards on an album that sounds so authentic, you’ll be checking the credits to see which Tin Pan Alley tunesmith wrote them." LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE

"I decided to make this album all pre-rock 'n' roll," McCue tells the Scene. "I love that era where jazz and blues started merging together and rock came out of it like a prodigal child." NASHVILLE SCENE

"McCue and co-producer Dusty Wakeman (Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam) give the album a welcome contemporary polish. That sheen shines even brighter thanks to McCue's virtuosity on guitar, whether she's slow-strumming a rhythm on "Things You Left Out in the Rain," finger-plucking a nylon-string solo on "Dig Two Graves" or riding a subtle slide on "Long Tall Story" — her pickin' chops have garnered accolades from the likes of Lucinda Williams..." NASHVILLE SCENE

"The sprightly album brims with toe-tap-inducing feel-good patina." NASHVILLE SCENE

Born in Sydney and raised just southwest in Campbelltown, McCue has toured the world playing her music in Concert Halls, pubs and festivals. She has most recently been based in East Nashville, a thriving songwriting community on the Cumberland River's left bank.


Her music is included in Time Life’s ‘4 Decades Of Folk Rock’ alongside Bob Dylan, The Byrds, etc. and in Starbucks Artist Choice alongside Leonard Cohen, John Coltraine etc.

McCue has also produced other artists including Audrey Auld, Tracey Bunn and currently, Emma Swift and Anne is a talented sound recordist.





Fall Through The Cracks

Anne McCue

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