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Early life and education

McCue grew up in Campbelltown, an area southwest of Sydney and graduated from Saint Patrick's college and the University of Technology, Sydney with a degree in Film Production and Film Studies. In 1988, McCue moved to

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and took guitar lessons from Bruce Clarke.

Music career

McCue is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-Instrumentalist, music-recording producer, engineer, and video director.

Early bands

McCue's first band was based in Sydney and was called ''Vertigo'' after the Alfred Hitchcock film. In 1988 in Melbourne, answering an ad in the local press, she joined all-female rock band Girl Monstar as lead guitarist (1988–1993). The band had two Number One hits on the Australian Independent Charts and eventually received an

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nomination for best independent act. Following her stint with Girl Monstar, she played acoustically around Melbourne, later performing in

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for a year before returning to Melbourne to record her Laughing EP (1996). She then joined Australian female trio Eden A.K.A., who signed to Columbia Records in the USA. Eden A.K.A. released the album ''Eden'' in 1998, and performed in Canada and the USA at the

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in 1998 and 1999.

Solo and band-leader success

After signing with L.A. based manager, Mike Gormley, McCue's first solo album, ''Amazing Ordinary Things'', was released in 1999 in Canada and Japan, and she toured with a number of well-known musicians, including a US tour with

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, who would often introduce McCue as "my new favorite artist... and an amazing guitarist". Williams later included McCue on her Starbucks' 'Artist's Choice' compilation alongside

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, John Coltrane, Ryan Adams, Patti Griffin and

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. McCue's success on the Lucinda Williams tour prompted the release of a live album, '' Live: Ballad of an Outlaw Woman'', recorded at

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, and her first Messenger Records release, ''Roll''. ''Roll'' also received numerous critical accolades, with ''

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'' stating that the Australian performer had more "all-American authenticity than a dozen

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'' drawing comparisons to Lucinda Williams and Canadian alt-country singer

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went as far as to call it his album of the year, and she toured internationally to promote the album. McCue released her album ''Koala Motel'' on Messenger Records in 2006. She completed an international tour to promote the album. She relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville. In August 2007, McCue was invited by

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to take part in the Broad Festival project, which toured major Australian cities including performing at the Sydney Opera House. With McCue and Conway were

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and Abbe May – they performed their own and each other's songs. Her song "Stupid" (from ''Roll'') is included in the Time Life Collection, "4 Decades of Folk Rock." She was voted Folk Artist of 2008 by the Roots Music Association. McCue recorded and produced her next album herself at her Flying Machine Studio. It was ''East of Electric'', released in August 2008. The first single from her next album, Broken Promise Land, 'Don't Go To Texas' was made available on iTunes and released in November 2009. The new album 'Broken Promise Land' was released on 18 May 2010. The DVD "Live in Nashville" was released on Flying Machine in 2011. In 2011 McCue released two cover version singles, Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on a Wire' and The Divinyls' 'Pleasure And Pain'. She formed the band 'Yeah No Yeah' with Simon Kerr and they released their first single and video, 'Happy Alone'. In 2013 McCue released her version of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run' and began recording her new album ''Blue Sky Thinkin''. In February 2015, McCue released Blue Sky Thinkin' a collection or original songs reminiscent of swing era jazz. The album is a return to her early days in music. In an interview, she noted, "In my earlier existence as a young guitar player in Melbourne, I wanted to be a jazz guitar player. I was studying jazz guitar. I was making my living playing jazz music, more like singing and playing guitar. ... So for me lue Sky Thinkin'was more like going back to that. ... I love the guitar tone of that era. I love the sound of the recordings. To me it’s very warm sounding. I don’t think it’s ever sounded better than that. So I was trying to get those sounds. I’ve listened to Charlie Christian a lot. And also to Django einhardt It was just natural. I didn’t force it. I didn’t tell myself I’m going to make a Charlie Christian type song or do a Django song. I just wanted to do it. I’ve played that stuff a lot and I wanted to write songs in that style."

Assisting other musicians

McCue produced and recorded two albums for other artists in 2009 – Tracey Bunn's "By The Wayside" and Denise DeSimone's "Pray Peace". She also directed the videos for Amelia White's "Even Angels" and Tracey Bunn's "Shut Up And Let Me Breathe". She produced albums released in 2018, for Ellen Starski (''The Days When Peonies Prayed For The Ants'') and Scott Miller (''Ladies Auxiliary''). McCue played guitar on

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's 2017 release ''

''.

Radio host

Since March 2014, McCue has hosted the radio show "Songs on the Wire", which features an eclectic program of music and live interviews, on internet-based "East Nashville Radio". Starting at some time between 2016 and 2018, and as of 2019, her show has been broadcast on low-power FM station WXNA in Nashville. The show is also rebroadcast on two Australian radio stations - Bay and Basin FM in Sanctuary Point, New South Wales, and MainFM 94.9 in

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, as of 2019.

Solo discography

* '' Laughing EP'' (EP) – self-released 1996 * ''Amazing Ordinary Things'' (CD) –

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2000 * '' Live: Ballad of an Outlaw Woman'' (CD) – Nightshade Records 2002 * ''

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'' (CD) – Messenger Records 2004 * '' Koala Motel'' (CD) – Messenger Records 2006 * ''

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'' (CD) – Flying Machine Recordings 2008 * '' Broken Promise Land'' (CD) – Flying Machine Recordings 2010 * ''Pleasure And Pain'' (Single) – Flying Machine Recordings 2011 * ''Bird on the Wire'' (Single) – Flying Machine Recordings 2011 * ''Born to Run'' (Single) – Flying Machine Recordings 2013 * ''Yo-Yos, Marbles and a Piece Of String'' – Flying Machine Recordings 2014 * ''Blue Sky Thinkin' '' - Flying Machines Recordings 2015 * ''Sister Of The Mainline/Remembory' '' - Flying Machines Recordings 2020

Compilations

* '' Artist Choice: Lucinda Williams'' – (CD) – Starbucks/Hear Music 2002 * '' This Is Americana'' (CD) – Narm Recordings 2004 * '' East Nashville Vol. 3'' – (CD) – Red Beet Records 2009 * '' 4 Decades of Folk Rock'' (CD Box Set) – Time Life 2007

As Guitarist and/or Singer

* Meryl Bainbridge – '' Between Days'' 2001 *

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– '' Rock'n'Roll Pony'' 2004 *

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– '' Mexican Standoff'' 2005 *

– '' Miles Away'' 2006 * Tracey Bunn – '' By The Wayside'' 2011 * Yeah No Yeah – '' Happy Alone'' 2011 * Emma Swift – '' Emma Swift'' 2015 *

– ''

'' 2017 (

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) * Ellen Starski – '' The Days Peonies Prayed For The Ants'' 2018 * Scott Miller – '' Ladies' Auxiliary'' 2018

As Producer and/or Engineer

* Denise DeSimone – '' Pray Peace'' 2009 * Tracey Bunn – '' By The Wayside'' 2010 * Anne McCue – ''

'' 2008 * Anne McCue – '' Broken Promise Land'' 2010 * Anne McCue – ''Pleasure And Pain'' 2011 *

Audrey Auld Audrey Auld-Mezera ('' née'' Audrey Auld; 14 January 1964 – 9 August 2015) was an Australian American country music touring singer–songwriter. She had released eleven albums and three EPs on her own Reckless Records label, and had recorded w ...

– '' Resurrection Moon'' 2012 * Anne McCue – ''

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'' 2013 * Emma Swift – '' Emma Swift'' 2015 * Anne McCue – '' Blue Sky Thinkin''' 2015 * Ellen Starski – '' The Days Peonies Prayed For The Ants'' 2018 * Scott Miller – '' Ladies' Auxiliary'' 2018

As Video Director and/or Editor

* Anne McCue –
Money In The Morning
' 2008 * Anne McCue –
My New Piano
' 2009 (short film) * Anne McCue –
All I Need
' 2008 *

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–
Even Angels
' 2013 * Yeah No Yeah –
Happy Alone
' 2011 * Anne McCue –
Things You Left Out In The Rain
' 2014 * Anne McCue –
Cowgirl Blues
' 2015 * Tracey Bunn -
Shutup and Let Me Breathe
' 2010

References

External links

Anne McCue official site

Messenger Records Anne McCue site
{{DEFAULTSORT:McCue, Anne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian alternative country singers Australian country singers Australian women guitarists Australian women singers Australian record producers Place of birth missing (living people) University of Technology Sydney alumni Singers from Sydney Australian women record producers