Anya Marina "Miss Halfway" (36.4 MB) from Miss Halfway The Annex Madison, WI February 3, 2009

What a drought! The winter thus far has brought not just very few shows I'm interested in to Madison, it feels like fewer shows in general are going on. Could be the economy hitting the live music industry, or maybe just a confirmation bias-fueled misperception on my part. Whatever it is, the drought came to a dramatic end when the Virgins came to town for a frigid mid-week show. Opening things up was a singer/songwriter who reminded by a lot of Inara George (The Bird from The Bird and the Bee), Anya Marina.

I'm guessing she developed her act in the coffeehouse scene, because her set featured a lot of interstitial storytelling. I don't usually include a three-minute lead-in on my clips, but on this one I felt it was worth keeping her extended acupuncture story as she introduced a song from her first album about L.A. This song was on Grey's Anatomy (or at least one of its soundtrack releases) so you may recognize it from there.