Annie and Her Guns

The record Outlaw for your Love review from the Flagpole in Athens, Ga went as follows.. "Holy shit, this is a good record - a dreamy, ecstatic trip through the ups and downs of being in love and all the urges that come with it. Even at her sweetest, Annie Merkley is still wily and seductive, her voice a smoky and sometimes coarse alto, like PJ Harvey after charm school, sipping a mint julep and messing around with a pedal steel. She lays bare her longing to have someone else all to herself... The first few tracks of Outlaw For Your Love are definitive make-out mood music with organ, vibraphone, cello, banjo and a chorus of Merkley beckoning her lover. The album shifts with “Like This,” a galloping, manic-depressive anthem to love. Never afraid to contradict herself, Merkley shrieks, “I love him so much I want to run down the street and scream it,” but a few seconds later moans, “I just can’t go on like this.” A strong cast of backers - Trey McManus (The Drag, The Envelopes, Fabulous Bird), John Neff (Japancakes, Lona), Jesse Flavin (The Good Ship, Phosphorescent), Kera Schaley (Low, Nirvana) - delivers her spot-on instrument arrangements, and Merkley really shows her vocal chops, alternating gentle coos (“My Love, My Lover”), tender moans of ecstasy (“Drivin All Night”), and threatening wails (“Searchin On”). Listening to Outlaw For Your Love is like staying up all night talking to an ex-girlfriend, and while it’s intense, her honesty is absolutely refreshing." ~Ann Tuppenhut

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