Anny Celsi: Blog

Hey friends...summer is nearly over but there's time to squeeze in one more road trip - this one along Route 66 to Flagstaff, where after a couple of days ogling the Grand Canyon I will be putting my son Ivan on a train to Chicago to start his life in college.
Some years back we journeyed together along that same road in the opposite direction, on the way home from a New Mexico tour.  While he slept in the passenger seat, lightning cracked above us and I found a station playing Native American drums.  We met two guys along the way who had a human cannonball act and were driving their cannon to the next circus town.  That night became the inspiration for the song 'The Night She Learned to Drive,' which is on the album 'Tangle-Free World.'
I'm then headed down to Tucson, where I'll be playing a solo acoustic set at The Red Room.  Please come on down if you're in the area, or let your Arizona friends know. 
Happy trails,
Anny

Hey all - I'm always looking for new earth to scorch, and yet I must sadly confess that I haven't spent quality time in Texas for several years.  The last time through (2004) I was touring with the late and lovely Duane Jarvis, mostly as an excuse for him to drive his Toyota van from Nashville to Los Angeles (where he was moving back after the Tennessee leg of his career...).  We had a beautiful trip down Highway 61, with a stopover at a small club in Louisiana where we stayed in cute little cabins (the Magnolia?) - then crossed over to Austin, where we opened for the late and lovely Stephen Bruton at The Cactus.  Stephen told us about a club called Railroad Blues in Alpine, Texas - we called from the road and got a gig that very night, which afforded us a great meal along with a motel room.   Next night, Bisbee Arizona, again the club name escapes me but they served up a wickedly good plate of barbecue.
Anyway it's been too long -- I'm going to make things right [...]

Nelson and I arrived back on these shores at the end of March, after over a month in Holland, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and England.  Having spent the better part of ten months planning the tour, organizing, booking, promoting, juggling planes, cars, trains and musicians ...  it's an epic job!  I'm very happy to say it was successful on many fronts.  The travel (mostly) came off without a hitch.  The shows were fantastic - a great excuse to discover new places, new faces, new roads and towns.  We met beautiful, music-loving people everywhere we went - and even some of our musical heroes.  We saw some of the most incredible mountains/lochs/churches/statues/valleys/ponies/ancient ruins/sandwiches and more of my lifetime.
One of the best things about touring this way is collaborating with brilliant musicians like Roland Wolff, Duncan Maitland and Richard Snow. Rather than taking a band on the road, Nelson and I have managed to condense our traveling [...]

"...while hours could be spent discussing which traces of our favourite female singers from the last 50 years can be heard in her songs, Anny does have a sound of her own and she is the owner of one of those voices that you can’t help but fall in love with. Anny is, simply, a superb vocalist.”

RAGAZZA MUSIC - Once in a blue moon a great L.A. style pop album comes around. For sheer pop genius this time out, it’s the 2009 CD release of Tangle-Free World by Anny Celsi. It’s near impossible to escape the fantastic pop and rock music lineage of L.A. From the innocent beginningsof Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys to the great psychedelic flourishes of L.A. and sister city San Francisco by the end of the 1960's, California leaves a music legacy second to none. A thoroughly modern singer-songwriter and guitarist looking to move the California folk-rock and power pop sound into the millennium, Ms. Celsi’s album has it all, including a valuable historical context within which she weaves her pop magic. Critics may cite influences like The Bangles to The Byrds within her music, but dig deeper and the sound further unfolds with fresh covers of the Lee Hazelwood / Nancy Sinatra track “Some Velvet Morning” and there’s even a cover of “Sally Go Round [...]