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By Nick Krewen When is a Canadian not quite Canadian? When she’s Americana songwriting folksinger Ana Egge (pronounced Eg-gy), born 35 years ago in Estevan, Saskatchewan, but raised in Ambrose, North Dakota and Silver City, New Mexico. “I was born in ’76 when it...

Ana Egge’s haunting CD captures the feelings of those who have a mentally ill loved one by Mark Moring Your picture’s fallin’ like a figurine Breaking branches in our family tree . . . I loved you and I hated you I prayed for you and stayed away from you So sings Ana...

The Exponent By ETHAN MERRICK, Staff Reporter The stage set-up was sparse with only a couple amps and a drum kit, creating the impression that the lone figure on stage was both larger and smaller at the same time. Ana Egge performed at the Lafayette Brewing Co....

The folk singer Ana Egge puts together a relaxed collection of covers on the appropriately titled album Lazy Days. With song titles like “Summer Wastin'” and “It’s My Lazy Day,” the album meditates on the simple pleasures of leisure time. Egge’s has a gorgeous voice...

Singer/songwriter Ana Egge, called the Nina Simone of folk by Lucinda Williams for her impassioned and confident lyricism, is out with her seventh studio album, Bad Blood. This time Egge turns her sharp storytelling lens on mental illness and family, touching on the...

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a guitar player who built her own guitar. Yep, when she was 17, Egge’s astrology teacher, also an accomplished luthier, invited her to work on a guitar as his apprentice … and she still plays it to this day (Wait, they teach...

Ana Egge – Bad Blood Ammal Rolling Stone: 3.5 star rating You can’t say this North Dakota-raised singer-songwriter doesn’t have range. Her 2007 Lazy Days, a breezy concept LP about idleness, covered Arcade Fire and the Kinks. Her latest, a team-up with producer Steve...

Ana Egge, a modern folkie with roots in North Dakota and a home in Brooklyn, first won acclaim about a decade ago, largely on the basis of her songwriting. She is also a proficient guitarist with an intimate touch, having built her own instrument as a teenager under...

There have been concept albums about sensorily deprived children, the adventures of the singers’ grandmother, and even one about a man composing a concept album, but North Dakota singer Egge might well be the first with a tribute to indolence. However, a lot of care...

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Ana Egge’s latest album Bad Blood perfectly encapsulates her sweet melodies, soft mixture of country and alternative rock and deep, haunting lyrics. Recorded in the famous Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY and produced by Steve...

Ana Egge Road To My Love •••• Grace / Parkinsong Seemingly a wild and restless traveller, statuesque blonde Ana Egge not only looks fearless but often sounds fearless, an interesting paradox of a young, adventurous songwriter combined with a woman who performs with a...

Lucinda Williams once called her “a folk Nina Simone.” But Ana Egge is more country than that. Raised by hippies who grew wheat in North Dakota, the Brooklyn singer–songwriter crafts homespun hymns on her sixth disc to sing with your bare feet on the dashboard. “Bully...

LIVE REVIEW Last night at the Cactus Cafe (how many times have I said that in the past month?), Ana Egge held court in fine style. Backed by members of What Made Milwaukee Famous, the indie-folk diva ran through most of the tunes from her new disc, Road To My Love...

The Folk Alliance has a peculiar tradition of moving the party up to the 17th, 18th and 19th floors for individual room showcases from about 10:30PM stretching into the wee hours of the night. The three floors of the Marriott turn into a dorm party with people...

Road to My Love by Christopher John Treacy EDGE Contributor Egge took a detour through some delightfully “Lazy Days” on the road to her love, and it shows. Whereas 2005’s “Out Past the Lights” shone bright with dizzyingly layered collages of sound and some...

Singer Ana Egge spends ‘Days’ idolizing the idle Laziness doesn’t get as much airtime as lust, greed and wrath, but it’s still considered a deadly sin. Not that laziness is unappreciated. As a culture we’re fascinated by the art of chilling out - maybe because we have...

The Virtues of Indolence It’s hard work being lazy. Life without a purpose or reason can be a drag. If you’re gonna do nothing, do nothing right. That’s the lesson of Ana Egge’s latest album, a 30-minute tribute to Lazy Days. Egge covers 10-fairly unknown odes to...

Ana Egge Lazy Days (Grace) For some artists, releasing an entire disc of covers signals a holding pattern. Ana Egge’s Lazy Days is a collection of others’ tunes, but she’s stretching herself in ways that perhaps she couldn’t on her own. It’s as varied a set of choices...