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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 ..
A Brief View of the Hudson's Friend Space (Top 17)
3rd Annual WAGSTOCK this Sunday, June 21st!! Wagstock is free for all. Bring blankets, pets, brew, snacks and snuggle up on the grass with your sweetie pie.
P.S. Call for Entries for the 9th Edition of VisionFest is now OPEN!! Hello Filmmakers and VF fans,
VisionFest '08 was a huge success and now it's time for us to gear up for our 9th edition, which will run for five evenings in June 2009.
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What's up,homie! I'm looking forward to your show on the 24th...promote the crap out of it...let's have a full Sidewalk night and please find a way to document it...I'd be proud to hold the camera and video you guys if you found one for me to borrow... ish
Hey guys, thanks for adding me. Beautiful tunes! 'My Love Is In DC' is particularly nice. Next time I'm in NYC I'd love to come see you play. I have some new tunes up too, when you get a spare 20mins please drop by and have a listen. Thanks again, hope to see you down the road. Dekko.
WISH I COULD BE THERE 2NIGHT! I heart y'all! I'll put you on my top friends if you put me on yours (bribe). (I'll also show you mine if you show me yours).
hey there! just dropped by your myspace after not looking for a while, and i wanted to say that you've got some great new stuff on here! I love your style! Especially the more old-timey folk stuff. keep it up! :)
Nick I see birthday wishes here on your site so, I guess I should say Happy Birthday too. Not quite sure when your birthday is? so late, ontime or Early I say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hello, A Brief View of the Hudson. You rule. Half a World Apart? One of the greatest songs of all time. Bring back Green Pepper Eyes! I mean if you feel like it. Love you guys.
Hey brother so many new songs! Youve been wearing your crazy pants. Good stuff. Am I gonna get to see you guys when your back? I get in from the east on he 25 if the roads are good. But I must also work. Maybe you can come to TO? I dunno, give me a call!
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