Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Iowa City, IA and Madison, WI. I've since lived in Minnesota, Belgium, California, and rambled for about 3 years.
Q: When did you start playing guitar?
A: I started playing when I was 14 or 15.
Q: What was the first song you learned on the guitar?
A: "Ghost" by The Indigo Girls. The first song I sang in front of anyone was a duet of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan.
Q: Who are some of your musical influences?
A: Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Sean Hayes, Ani Difranco, Bob Dylan, Mason Jennings, Jolie Holland, The Indigo Girls, The Beatles, David Zollo, Kris Delmhorst, Chuck Berry, Norah Jones, John Prine, Joni Mitchell, and the folks I've played with.
Q: So you have a band?
A: I perform solo a lot but sometimes put a band together. Maybe someday I'll have a permanent band, it would be nice. Some people I've shared stage and/or studio time with are Brendan O'Connell, Birger Olsen, Nick Moran, Sarah Morris, Jason Quever, Dave Mihaly, Bill Noertker, Scott Beardsley, Aaron Konkol, Riley Sattler, Ben Ferris, David Zollo, Matt Bruer, Scott Barkan, Mark Whitcomb, Brian Daly, Jeremy Schmidt, Jamie Ryan, Beth Kille, Corey Hart (the folksinger one), Dan Walkner, and Austin Lynch.
Q: What's on your iPod?
A: All of the above + MGMT, Justin Townes Earle, Bob Marley, Amos Lee, Krishna Das, Three Dog Night, Richard Marx, Jeff Tweedy, Gillian Welch, Pieta Brown, Cat Power, Janis Joplin, Tom Petty, Elvis, Bon Iver, High and Lonesome, Tom Petty, The Steve Miller Band, Otis Redding, Nirvana, Phosphorescent, and the CD Baby DIY Musicians' Podcast.
Q: What's your favorite color?
A: Green
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Born in Iowa City, IA, Laube (pronounced "Lau" like "how" and "be" like "to be or not to be") began studying the piano at the age of three and later took up saxophone, oboe, violin, guitar, and harmonica. She was a leading member in a number orchestras during high school and studied oboe at the Académie de Musique Grétry in Liège, Belgium, on a Rotary scholarship.
On a trip to Australia and New Zealand in college, Laube borrowed a friend's guitar and started writing songs. She started performing out regularly at a cafe on Castro Street in San Francisco and has come a long way in a short time: Anna Laube has been described as “An artist to whom you would hand over the keys to your heart” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, composing “Intimate, heartfelt songs rooted in traditional Americana” (NPR)—and her music is receiving airplay worldwide. She's performed at SXSW in Austin, TX, the Monterey Blues Festival, the Stone Arch Festival, the Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival, The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour, and has toured the country playing at farmers' markets, restaurants, bars, clubs, theaters, conferences, weddings, anniversaries, family reunions, breweries, wineries, benefits, and live on the radio. She has curated and hosted an art and music event in San Francisco entitled "The Love Show (I, II, & III)" and in 2010 is a contestant on 105.5 Triple M's Radio Reality Contest "Project M," will be an instructor at the first ever Girls' Rock Camp in Madison, WI, and co-wrote her first song. She has released two albums: 2006's Outta My Head and 2009's Pool All The Love * Pool All The Knowledge. You can listen to Anna on Pandora.com and Last.FM, download the Official Anna Laube app on iTunes, and get her albums and singles directly from her record label, Ginkgo Records, or on iTunes, CDBaby, and Amazon.com.
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