Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

We play for the moment. 
Each of our songs reflects its respective moment … and  it’s very likely that we interpret a given song somewhat differently each time, maybe even in a totally different manner … all following our momentary vibe. A spontaneity we can feel and so can all those listening to our music. Very often we get overwhelmed ourselves by the dynamics … and it bears the chance that in this special moment something exciting and unique is taking place only possible in this particular now. For us that’s our perpetual kick … our JJHKF vibe. Connecting to the moment.

Originally from the Allegheny Forest, Jennie Kay Snyder is a veteran of the LA and Austin music scenes. She was one of three founders and lead singers of Ventura, CA based Western Swing band, The Tatters, whose self-titled, critically acclaimed debut record garnered a "Top Ten DIY Picks of 2001" honor from Performing Songwriter magazine. After 911, she took a five-year hiatus to focus on songwriting in the Wallowa Mountains of Eastern Oregon, where she was awarded a scholarship to participate in the songwriting workshop by the prestigious Fishtrap Summer Gathering. 
While in Austin,Texas, she occasionally sang with old friend and rockabilly queen Rosie Flores, was guest vocalist for the Texas Swing Kings and the Magnolia Band, and played keys, sang, and recorded with electronic pop/rock group The Noise Revival, led by now international composer, Nathan Felix, also known as Nathan Noise.
In her 30-year career, she has been on bills with Southern Culture on the Skids, The Red Elvises, Townes Van Zandt, The Blind Alabama, Albert Lee, Tony Gylkeson, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Victoria Williams, and Timbuk 3, and appears on dozens of live and studio recordings as a lead and backing vocalist.

She recently won a second scholarship to Todd Snider's Camp What The F*lk to study further with Todd and Otis Gibbs.

Her roots-flavored original songs have been described as universal and timeless; her performance style exuberant and soulful, and her voice has drawn comparisons to Emmylou Harris, Julie Miller and Iris Dement.

OPERA singer gone Blues.  Rock and more.  Eclectic vocalist, shaman and sound and music healer. 

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.





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