Anne McCue has recently been included along with Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Patty Griffin and other great artists in the collection '4 Decades of Folk Rock' and was a special guest at the International Guitar Festival.

She will be releasing a new album "East Of Electric" in August 2008. McCue recorded and produced the album at her own Flying Machine Studio in Nashville. It was mixed by Mike Esser at 16 Ton Studio and was mastered by Ray Kennedy at Zen Masters.

McCue recorded the album whilst waiting to record a new electric album. Inspired by the golden era of folk pop music which took place in the late sixties with such albums as Rubber Soul, Aftermath, bands like The Byrds and artists like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Anne set about recording, playing every instrument she could get her hands on - guitars, mandolin, cheatin' banjo, piano, harmonica, lap steel, slide banjo, bass guitar, ukulele, shaker, tambourine, organ, drum etc.

Special guests include Eamon McLoughlin of The Green Cards (violin, viola & cello); Irish singer/songwriter Tony Kerr (backing vocals); artist Leslie Mills (tapdance) and Dave Ray of The Coalmen (snare drum) . While Anne is primarily known for her guitar playing skills, she gets to stretch out here on many other instruments and undertook all production and recording duties for the album. She was also able to call on her arranging skills for the string section in "Money In The Morning".

"I wanted to stay close to that late sixties folk rock ethic, keeping it real, not adding too much instrumentation, keeping the story and the melody in the forefront ... Being included on the '4 Decades of Folk Rock' anthology encouraged me to follow this path and style which I am naturally inclined toward anyway. Recording an album at home seemed like something great and productive to do whilst waiting for the dust to settle in the music business around me..." says McCue.

As one of the foremost female guitarists of our time, Anne has been invited to play at the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Concert at the Adelaide Guitar Festival alongside world renowned guitarists such as Vernon Reid and John Hammond.

Anne has appeared as guest guitarist/vocalist on albums by Michelle Shocked, Gina Villalobos and Stephen Rowe and has been featured in Guitar Player Magazine, No Depression, Harp, Performing Songwriter, Billboard, Australian Musician etc...

Her song 'Stupid' is included on the Time Life release '4 Decades Of Folk Rock' which features such legendary artists as Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Suzanne Vega and Patty Griffin.

She has released her fourth solo album, Koala Motel, to critical acclaim and has recently co-produced two albums by other artists - Stephen Rowe and Leila Florentino.

Guests on 'Koala Motel' include Lucinda Williams, John Doe, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Jim Lauderdale and Doug 'Lovejoy' Pettibone.

To see live footage go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPRmwRslRg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YslhP4ZDY4

Anne recently took part in The Broad Festival - a national tour of Australia put together by Deborah Conway in which she played at concert halls all over Australia including the Sydney Opera House.

Her two previous albums were recorded at Dusty Wakeman's Mad Dog Studios in Burbank, California and were released on the Messenger Records label. McCue and Wakeman co-produced the albums. Going in with the philosophy of some of Anne's favourite three piece bands, on 'Roll' she played the guitars, Dusty played bass with Dave Raven on the drums. The three jammed on the material. Carl Byron added keyboards. The album has received critical acclaim from such publications as Billboard, Entertainment Weekly and XM Satellite Radio (Top 5 Album of the Year) and was picked by Bob Harris of the BBC as his favourite album of 2004.

Offered the chance to play music in Vietnam for a year Anne found it, "an unbelievable experience and it really changed my life. It also gave me the chance to hone my lead guitar playing." Anne rode a 1965 Vesper and toted her guitar around on the bike 'just like the locals'. After playing in all kinds of bands almost every night it was time to return to Melbourne where she frequented the blues jams.

She continued recording her original songs but took the opportunity to become a member of a group which was soon signed to Columbia Records giving Anne the opportunity to tour the U.S. and Canada as part of the "Lilith Fair." This experience brought her on stage with many of the greats such as The Pretenders, Emmylou Harris and Sarah McLachlan and took her to Los Angeles. The band proved to be creatively frustrating for Anne, so she left the group to pursue her interrupted solo career.

Eventually she completed her debut album "Amazing Ordinary Things". Anne co-produced all the tracks except "Angel Inside" which was produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell). The CD is named after a painting by Jules C. McCue, Anne's sister, whose artwork is found throughout the packaging.

McCue also released a live recording from her tour in 2002 with Lucinda Williams entitled "Ballad Of An Outlaw Woman"‚ and is currently editing the DVD which chronicles her time on that tour.

http://www.AnneMcCue.com