A Brief View of the Hudson

Bio:

Ann Enzminger spent her early years in Texas singing on Austin street corners and with many ill-fated traveling bands and revues. She finally settled in New York City in the early part of this century and through a series of seemingly unrelated events and a small stint in Drama school she met Nick Nace. Nick had come in to town, not long after Ann, on a slow train from Canada's northlands. It was a crisp October afternoon when he first laid eyes upon his new home, the sun was shining, the sky was happy and the golden leaves and yellow taxicab's spun together in autumnal glory. After some shaky first steps, a brief incarceration and an illness I wont bother to talk about Nick found a bed bug ridden room at The Hotel Belleclaire, a sleazy S.R.O. on Manhattans Upper West Side. It was a dismal place. Yet such beautiful flowers can rise from the darkest of corners. Besides two random meetings in the Hotels small elevator Nick & Ann spent years mostly unaware of the others existence. Then one day after the greatest calamity this fair city had ever seen, Nick was walking down the Bowery in a fog of despondency, wondering what to do with his life, when he heard a voice singing as if from the heavens. There was the petite frame of Ann Enzminger belting out a melancholy tune so powerful and violent yet so delicate and feminine Nick was dumbfounded. He watched for several minutes in a trance like state. Then it hit him. He knew what he had to do. He tore home, got his hands on an old blue guitar and resolved to start a musical collaboration with Ann by years end. Over the next six months he practiced day and night. One day as he was sitting in the hallway plucking a Hank Williams tune he looked up to see Ann staring down at him. "I've been listening to you practice for months now, you're finally getting somewhere, you're almost good even" she said. "I am playing down at The Dililla in two days maybe we can work out a few numbers." Perhaps it was fate, perhaps not, but from that day forward whenever I take the train home and it goes above ground between 125 St. and 137 St. I look to the west and between the buildings and behind the highway, right before we disappear underground once more, I see A Brief View of the Hudson. Somewhere Elsewhere Live @ The Bowery Poetry Club .. Down South Music Video A little documentary about us 'Suicide Train' Live @ The Sidewalk Cafe
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Member Since:

March 31, 2005

Members:

Nicholas Nace, Ann Enzminger & Joel Herzig

Influences:

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Townes Van Zandt, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Odetta, Beck, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Fugs, Jimi Hendrix, Sonic Youth, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Charlie Mingus, Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Pavement, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, King Missile, Eric's Trip, Elevator to Hell, The Ramones, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, The Pixies, Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, Patti Smith, Charles Bukowski, Knut Hamsun, John Fante, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Walt Whitman, Dostoyevsky, Gorky, Dylan Thomas, The O'Debra Twins, Jeff Lewis, Schwervon, Kimya Dawson, Toby Goodshank, Prewar Yardsale, Brer Brian, Langhorne Slim, Diane Cluck, The Carter Family, Harry Smith, Lenny Kay, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The White Stripes, The Band, R.L. Burnside, Sufjan Stevens, Donovan, Arcade Fire, The Talking Heads, The Wowz, The Fools, Daniel Carter, Steve Dalachinsky, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The MC 5, Beautiful Honky, The Two Minute Miracles, Willie Nelson, The Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy, Hunter S. Thompson, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Simon & Garfunkel, Gary Lucas, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, The Notekillers, Daniel Johnston, R. Crumb, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Will Oldham, Jim O'Rourke, Robert Johnson & Louis Armstrong. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog has a go @ A Brief View of the Hudson Live @ Comix

Record Label:

North/South