Anne McCue

Great show last night by Anne McCue. It was songwriter night at the restaurant and there were other performers besides Anne, so it wasn’t full on Anne all the time. She was a sweeheart as always. She mostly played acoustic, but did rock out with her electric guitar a couple times, including an awesome solo version of Voodoo Chile. On another electric song, she did this weird thing with her effects board and played a rythm part that she got to repeat, then played another little backing piece that repeated, then played a scorching lead guitar, so she had 3 guitar parts going at once. Impressive.

Paul_from_los_angeles was there so it was another night well represented by the website peeps.

Of course I did. But my night is Saturday. Last night the table was staffed by a lady named Marti. I can’t say it was that busy around the table.

Awesome video.

Last night was stop number 2 on the Anne McCue tour. She played in a wedding chapel behind a bookstore in Morro Bay in front of about 50 people. She played acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, and a tiny red ukelele. Many folks in the crowd said they saw her open for LW in San Luis Obispo years ago.

My next and final night on the tour is tonight at a winery in Templeton. Anne said she would play with a band tonight.

Winery touring is on the schedule today. It is a bright sunny morning and is expected to get up to 80 today.

The show last night at the Castoro Cellars in Templeton was a big winner. After a very warm day touring wineries we made it over to the vineyard and set up the merchandise table and started drinkin wine. The show was held in a function room next to the tasting room, although it was warm enough to play outside. The doors were open to a patio deck where people were sitting at tables drinking wine. In fact, everyone seemed to have their own wine bottle and glass. Lucinda would love this place.

Anne was accompanied by Dusty Wakeman on bass and Dave Raven on drums. I’d say there were about 250 people in this room. The band was smoking. They did a lot of the electric numbers from Broken Promise Land and Koala Motel. Anne covered Roxanne again, as she did solo from the night before in Morro Bay.

At the break we kicked major butt on the CDs. Good thing Anne had us count the CDs first because they were selling so fast we lost count and I had to reconcile the money against the number of CDs left.

The second set was again awesome and I got thanked from the stage by Anne! So I came home happy.