Kristopher Weiss, Sound Bites – Song Review: “This Time”

Jan 13, 2021 | Press, This Time

Songwriters Ana Egge and Dick Connette borrowed lyrics from America’s founding documents, its professed ideals and existing protest songs to create a new anthem. The pair co-wrote, and Egge recorded, “This Time,” a musically delicate, lyrically forceful track set to...

Parade – We’re in Awe of Ana Egge’s Heavenly Live Performance of ‘We Are One’

Jan 29, 2020 | Press

Hauntingly beautiful with a gravitas behind its meaning that transcends the mere music of mortals, Brooklyn folk-pop, singer-songwriter Ana Egge’s “We Are One” is a gorgeous work on its own. But this live version of Egge performing with the First Unitarian Brooklyn...

Rolling Stone – John Prine Recruits Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle for 2020 All the Best Fest

Jan 27, 2020 | Press

John Prine is reviving his All the Best Fest for a second year, in late 2020. The four-day musical event, which the Grammy Lifetime Achievement recipient launched in 2019, will again partner with Sixthman when it sets up at the Breathless and Now Onyx...

Rolling Stone Country – 10 Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now

Oct 4, 2019 | Is It the Kiss, Press

Ana Egge, “Hurt a Little”“The first step is always learning how to fall,” Ana Egge sings over a chugging, bare-boned rhythm during this song’s first verse. “Hurt a Little” eventually grows into something larger, with keyboards and coed harmonies filling the spaces...

No Depression – Ana Egge Strikes a Sonorous Balance on ‘Is It the Kiss’

Sep 4, 2019 | Is It the Kiss, Press

Halfway through Ana Egge’s 11th record, Is It the Kiss, on the standout track “Hurt a Little,” she gives listeners some touching words of encouragement: “Sometimes the work will be hard if it’s ever gonna work at all.” The balance between the good and the bad...

Folk Alley – Hear It First: Ana Egge, ‘Is It the Kiss’

Sep 4, 2019 | Is It the Kiss, Press

Great songs — honest songs — don’t only give us a lens through which we can see their writers; they give us a look inside ourselves. They connect us to our own hearts, as well as each others’, across time, space, and every other barrier imaginable....