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Nena Anderson.<\/span> Photo courtesy of Jen Acosta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nena Anderson is in constant motion. She has to be. She has a garden and confesses \u201cI like to cook out of it.\u201d <\/strong>There are also two dogs, three chickens, teen-agers, a husband and five on-going, musical projects. Six, if you count her collaboration on Alex Woodard\u2019s, For the Sender<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cI always have something to do!\u201d <\/strong>Anderson laughs. \u201cI\u2019m doing something constantly until I\u2019m literally falling into bed. That\u2019s just how I am. It\u2019s exhausting!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing)<\/p>\n

Exhausting maybe, but extremely productive. The Anderson music catalog added two new discs last year with the release of the \u2018live\u2019 EP \u2018Lonesome Nights\u2019<\/strong> and just before the holidays, \u2018Christmas with Nena.\u2019<\/strong> Both projects co-produced with guitarist-husband, Deane Cote. \u2018Lonesome Nights\u2019 Nena says was a \u201ccompletely live\u201d<\/strong> learning process recorded in \u201cone shot\u201d<\/strong> and \u201creally fun!\u201d <\/strong>As for the Christmas album, she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a throwback to a simple jazz combo with an Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London feel.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

The artistry of this composer, gardener, mom, foodie, graphic designer, writer, painter and chicken farmer, seriously has no boundaries. Her creativity and inspiration comes from others; family, friends and the people that mean the most to her. The songs she writes and the music she performs, reflect that. So our conversation started with her diversity in both style and presentation. How do you describe the music of Nena Anderson? \u201cI don\u2019t really.\u201d <\/strong>She says. \u201cIt\u2019s all music, it\u2019s all music. I grew up listening to and being influenced by any and all styles. And I\u2019m lucky enough to be able to sing most styles. I try not to worry about what style it is but our society needs a place to put it, you need a category for ITunes. Unfortunately, you have to pick a category and I struggle with it every day, still<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My second or third band was blues and I loved it so much, it was so easy and natural for me. But I felt that the genre and the people within it were so insular and so unwilling to accept things outside of that and it really turned me off. I\u2019m one of those people that don\u2019t want to be told what to do. I don\u2019t want to feel confined. Now you\u2019re a blues artist and now I\u2019m stuck being a blues artist my whole life. And I was in my early 20\u2019s! No, I don\u2019t want to do that! I mean, I love it and I was very deep into it, why would I only want to do that? I think my solo band is the best thing for me right now, I feel like I can do all the genre\u2019s and not worry about it fitting into Rock or Blues or anything, I can just do whatever I want.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nena Anderson Band performs at the Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA.<\/span> Photo courtesy of Jen Acosta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of multiple genres, how many different projects are you currently involved in? \u201cSo, I have my solo band – Nena Anderson.\u201d <\/strong>She says. \u201cIt\u2019s a four-piece band, with Deane Cote on guitar, Jefrey Kmak on bass and Tim Petersen on drums and we play about everything; we say it\u2019s Americana, Americana rock, maybe even folk rock. The solo\/duo thing is kind of an evil necessity. I actually don\u2019t like playing solo, ever. I do occasionally but it kicks my butt, I can\u2019t lie. I just don\u2019t enjoy it. I can do it and its fine but it has to be a short set. I\u2019m not a person who will play for three-hours by myself\u2026I get sick of me. I hope everyone else does. But I\u2019ve always played music to play with other people, to interact with other musicians. I\u2019ve never, ever played it to play by myself or to play my songs. It\u2019s always to have that collaboration. To me, playing solo is just not fun.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it a social thing for you? \u201cIt\u2019s not even social, though. When you interact with artists and you collaborate to create a bigger whole\u2026it\u2019s Magic! You can\u2019t explain it and it doesn\u2019t always work. But when it does and you can work with artists that understand that language, it\u2019s fantastic. Deane and I have been doing some duo shows and it\u2019s forcing me to stretch a bit as far as being a better guitar player. And it\u2019s fun in a different way because it\u2019s still interacting with another musician and not a whole band.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, that\u2019s three. \u201cThen I have Brawley which is the honky-tonk band and at this point we only play a few times a year. And have a great time, so much fun.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have a regular thing called Jetset<\/strong> out in Palm Springs. \u201cSo Palm Springs is jazz and a little Western swing and it\u2019s Adrian Demain, myself and Jim Austin from Brawley and then we have a fiddle player, Bobby Furgo and he is fantastic. He was Leonard Cohen\u2019s main guy for like 15 years or so. He lives in Yucca Valley and does a lot of session work in L.A. It\u2019s a fun combo for sure!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So solo, duo with Deane, Brawley, Jetset and the Nena Anderson band, that\u2019s five different projects? \u201cAnd all of those we play originals as well as covers. My solo bands\u2026it\u2019s mostly originals with a sprinkling of covers, the other two are standards with a few originals. Adrian and I both write for Brawley and Jetset.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

When do you sleep? \u201cI\u2019m still doing other projects, too.\u201d <\/strong>She laughs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI used to sneak into clubs to see the Beat Farmers!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tell us about the For the Sender <\/em><\/strong>project. \u201cAbout 2011 a local songwriter, Alex Woodard, put together a group of songwriters in a collaborative project. He had asked his fans to send him letters to write songs about. And he got all these letters that were so fantastic, mostly stories of tragedy, hope overcoming hardship\u2026and he picked a handful. So happens, he was living with Sean Watkins at the time and they wrote a song together based on one of these letters. He came up with the idea, why don\u2019t I bring all my friends\u2026and we had these family dinners where we\u2019d all meet at his house and eat! The question was posed, \u2018Why don\u2019t we all collaborate and write songs about these letters?\u2019 It came together very organically and I was lucky to be a part of that in the beginning. We ended up making an album and doing some shows. Alex ended up writing a book! It started out as liner notes and it became a book!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cAnd then it got picked up and so we did two more. All of the <\/strong>(submission) letters picked a charity, so when we do these concerts all the money would go to these chosen charities. Now every Christmas we do this For the Sender <\/em>show and we do some of these songs. For any audience to experience somebody\u2019s story, like a letter being read and then the three songs that were written inspired by it and that immediate connection of music to a story is so powerful\u2026 and healing. The idea being that we all feel the same things. We all share it and you don\u2019t feel so all alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nena and Deane on stage.<\/span> Photo courtesy of Yachiyo Mattox.<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did you have a musical family? \u201cNo!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cMy parents loved music. I took my mom to a concert once; I took her to see K.D. Lang. She said, \u2018this is kind of cool. I\u2019ve only been to three concerts, ever.\u2019 I was like, really? So, I asked her what they were. \u2018Oh, the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl!\u2019\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) Turns out the three shows were \u201c\u2026the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Janis Joplin! And I\u2019m taking her to see K.D. Lang, whatever, sorry.\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cExcuse Me!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cMy mom was into pop music and we always had a lot of music around the house. My dad, and it tortured me as a child, my dad loved \u2018old-timey\u2019 music. It was PBS radio, which I thought was the bane of the earth. It was banjo\u2019s, bluegrass, Carter family and later a little bit more of Hoyt Axton, Merle Haggard and all that stuff. It\u2019s so funny because it\u2019s almost like osmosis, I hated that so much growing up and now it\u2019s some of my most favorite. And we did have music around all the time, but neither of them were musical, and I grew up wanting to be the opposite of that and I grew up in the era of punk and ska and new wave and I was into all of that. I did take some lessons when I was a kid and they were horrible.\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cI had guitar lessons and that was awful and I hated it. I didn\u2019t last very long.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

How about other influences or training; vocal, theater? \u201cNo vocal lessons but in high school and in school at UCLA, I was a DJ. I was really into music and records and putting things together. And I did some musical theater when I was a kid, and I think that\u2019s where the jazz thing comes from, my dad loved old movies and I STILL love old movies. Constantly, I watched old movies, musicals, noirs, Hitchcock films, science fiction, dramas, murder\u2026everything! I loved all old movies and I particularly loved the musicals and the music from it. As I got older I realized, oh, that\u2019s because they\u2019re all the old standards. I get it! <\/strong>(laughing)<\/p>\n

Your roots, it was ingrained in you. \u201cWhen I first started singing blues\u2026I sang in a rock band in college and did some session work with some people singing Electronica and dance music stuff. But none of it really fit. But when I started singing blues and jazz, it was just natural, there was just zero effort involved. I remember people asking me, \u2018How long you been doing that?\u2019 I just started last week, you know?\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cWell, maybe you should do more of it!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first discovered you through your blues roots. \u201cYou\u2019ll love this; I started singing blues with Billy Watson<\/a> and Joe Jazdzewski and Nathan James<\/a> and a group of guys playing at a little coffee shop in Carlsbad called the Art House. I think Nathan may have been touring, but he was in and out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Billy Watson says he remembers those days. \u201cThe Art House was a coffee shop that had monthly art exhibits.\u201d <\/strong>Billy says. \u201cI hosted a Tuesday night open mic for two years around 93’and 94′. Nena had great talent right outta\u2019 the gate. She\u2019s also a great graphic designer. She was kind enough to do the art on my first and second CDs. She worked for a hip company called Red Sand. They were all friends with the Paladins and she did one of their covers too. She worked with all the guys we know like Eric Lieberman. She knew everyone and grew up a native here in San Diego. Her Dad is an old-school surfboard builder\u2026before that term was even invented. He had a shop in Encinitas called Agua. He is still at it to this day. I am hugely honored to know Nena, she’s a pal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tell me about Lucky Scandal and some of your early bands\u2026 \u201cIt started out,\u201d <\/strong>Nena says. \u201cAs \u2018Lucky Scandal and the Many Shades of Sin\u2019 and I can\u2019t lie, we were pretty awful.\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cBut we were good enough to play some local gigs. It was rock-a-billy and blues and at some point I met Eric <\/strong>(Lieberman) and I was looking for a guitar player. I sang and had been sitting in with the Juke Stompers and it was great. He and I ended up putting together a different band and doing a lot more of what I was interested in\u2026jump blues, early R&B, and blues. We did that for about seven or eight years. It was still called \u2018Lucky Scandal\u2019 and I used to do the whole pinup girl look, high heels, big hair, the dresses and the whole thing. And we did really well, and at one point I had an eight-piece band, a horn section with Jonny Viau and we played big shows at the Catamaran Hotel, Humphrey\u2019s and the Belly Up. It happened to be right in the middle of the big swing dance craze and we were already established. It was nice; we had lots of great gigs and a lot of people would come out and dance to our band. We were playing once or twice a month at the Derby in Los Angeles. About four or five years in, I changed the name to \u201847 Combo\u2019 because 1947 was a good year for music of that style. We were mostly playing as a five-piece at that time, sometimes a six-piece. And I was working full time as a graphic and product designer and playing four or five nights a week and when I finally stopped, I nearly had a mental breakdown. I didn\u2019t even know how exhausted I was and when I finally stopped I had about three months of complete\u2026 I was brain-dead. I was a mess.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What about the Never Out and the Mules? \u201cThe Never Out was a rock band that I had for a few years around 2010, that had my friend O (Otis Barthoulameu) who had a band \u2018Fluf\u2019 and Bill Driscoll who\u2019s actually April West\u2019s son. He plays trumpet, drums and guitar, he\u2019s a fantastic musician, and Mike Butler on guitar. We played my songs in a more rocked out way. It was super fun and I just wanted to play loud, I\u2019ve been playing quiet, I want to play loud. And \u2018the Mules\u2019 which was a predecessor to my solo band, now. It was Nena Anderson and the Mules and that was the band I recorded the album \u2018Beyond the Lights\u2019 with.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

We talked about influences, but who else do you think made an impact on your direction? \u201cI used to sneak into clubs to see the Beat Farmers!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cI was going to the Belly Up when I was 15!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cBecause my parents had so many varied influences, I grew up with an open mind. I can honestly say the only thing I\u2019m not a real fan of is Pop Country, New Country. I can listen to Heavy Metal; I can listen to Jazz and Country Rock. I love it all, but for me it\u2019s about honesty, so regardless what the genre is I gravitate toward artists that are honest and who bring that to the show. And I love the song writers\u2026Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard and John Prine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CDWould you call yourself a singer-songwriter? \u201cNo!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cIn the standard definition of it, yes, I am. Growing up in the San Diego music scene I always felt like singer-songwriter meant mediocrity and I didn\u2019t like it. It was the coffee shop, open-miker who had a fifteen minute song and held every note out as long as they could. From day one, that was never my thing. Although I wrote my first song when I was 19, I never considered myself in that world. The first three bands I was in, I just started bands. I didn\u2019t really play that much but I put together players and I had a band. I wanted that interaction of people so I bypassed that whole singer-songwriter thing that a lot of people start with. I did my first open mike, I think I was 34. I didn\u2019t learn to play guitar until my early 30s. I went to East County and started doing an open mike thing out there on a weeknight. I have to kick my own ass, basically. If I don\u2019t play out\u2026like a show in front of people, I need the pressure of having to do it; that\u2019s my motivation. So I started doing these open-mikes, solo with a guitar to learn something new.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Southern California home? \u201cOh yeah! My parents moved here in 1971, my mom was from Indio and my dad was from Huntington. My mom used to ditch school and drive to the beach where she met my dad. They moved down here and my dad wanted to be a surfboard shaper, so in the early 70s he started doing it. I haven\u2019t always been here; I went to college in L.A. but always Southern California-based, I lived in LaJolla and moved around. I\u2019ve toured, I\u2019ve travelled, and I love to go places, I\u2019m actually not a static person but growing up here, I\u2019m really spoiled and I hate the cold.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been involved in Art and Music, you Blog about food\u2026\u201cI love food!\u201d <\/strong>She giggles. \u201cI\u2019m half Chinese and I grew up in a family where everything is about food, everything. There was food to heal you, food for social gatherings, food because you\u2019re too skinny and food\u2026because you need more!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cEverything was about food, all the time! I love food because it\u2019s delicious; I love flavors, but also because food brings people together, you can share a meal with someone, you can cook for people and it makes them feel good. I have a garden and I like to cook out of it and a friend of mine, a native American man who works in Palm Springs, he\u2019s always telling me, \u2018food is special when you grow it yourself and you cook it for someone and you share it, there is power in that.\u2019 Power in a happy, healing connection and I believe that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What inspires you? \u201cEverything inspires me.\u201d <\/strong>She says. \u201cI went to school to be an industrial designer. I\u2019ve been doing graphic design and building things, coloring and painting things since I was 14. Part of that world, and it\u2019s the same for music to me, I cannot shut off my brain. And people will go, \u2018oh, you\u2019re not working on that now, or let\u2019s work on this song, right now.\u2019 I\u2019m not that kind of person. I\u2019m working on it for weeks, months; I\u2019m stewing on things for a year and then it comes out. Inspiration comes to me through the people I\u2019m around and I try to surround myself with people that are doers. People that have something to say, and opinions, whether I agree with them or not that\u2019s irrelevant, but people with opinions and ideas and outgoing interests.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You worked with Jack Tempchin. \u201cI love Jack!\u201d <\/strong>She smiles. \u201cJack loves lasagna!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cHe loves home-made lasagna! <\/strong>(laughing)<\/p>\n

Everything IS about food with you, isn\u2019t it? (laughing) \u201cI\u2019m telling you, food is the great connector.\u201d <\/strong>She grins. \u201cI got to work with Jack on the For the Sender<\/em> project and people don\u2019t understand. He is such a fantastic writer but he\u2019s just the most regular dude on the planet. You can go down to Swami\u2019s on any Friday night and he\u2019s playing with the hippy drum circle. He\u2019s awesome and every once in a while he\u2019ll send me something and say, \u2018I wrote this song, you wanna\u2019 sing it?\u2019 or I\u2019ll poke him a bit and say, \u2018what are you doin\u2019? Come over and eat some food and hang out\u2019 and he loves the way Deane plays guitar and we just get together and kick around songs. He\u2019s such a great guy and so talented.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about your catalog of music, it seems to be growing? \u201cI actually have a lot of projects that I\u2019m on but that aren\u2019t necessarily MY projects. There are all these jazz compilations that have been distributed all through Europe and Asia that I\u2019m on. They\u2019re available online. They are all jazz compilations and it\u2019s so cool because I\u2019m on there with you know, Quincy Jones and Michael Buble and Cesaria Evora and all these famous people\u2026and Nena Anderson. <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cAnd it\u2019s real funny. But those are cool because that\u2019s how I met pianist, Danny Green. He\u2019s a monster, he\u2019s so great. A composer, jazz pianist, does Latin, everything. I worked with him on some jazz stuff way back in the day and he said, \u2018Hey, I\u2019ve got this publisher that wants some songs. Do you want to come in and sing some vocals on a few of these tracks?\u2019 And I get there and he says, \u2018Do you have any original songs?\u2019 Yeah, I\u2019ve got a couple. I played one for him and he says, \u2018We\u2019re just going to record that now.\u2019 So we recorded one and the publisher loved it and I sold my first song. I was like, \u2018people buy songs? I can sell a song? I get a check for that?\u2019\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cOh, maybe I should write more songs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve spent a little time in the recording studio over the years, for Nena Anderson projects and for others. \u201cMy own records, I have \u2018Beyond the Lights\u2019 released in 2011. I\u2019m on the For the Sender<\/em> CD and an EP I put out early in 2019 called \u2018Lonesome Nights.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Lonesome Nights\u2019 was an experiment for us because I wanted to record completely live. To decide if that\u2019s the way I wanted to record the entire album. So we did the EP completely live all in one shot in the studio. Considering that, I think it\u2019s really fun and really good. But I think I learned from it that I don\u2019t want to do that for my full album\u2026maybe do a combination. And then at the end of 2019, I released the \u2018Christmas with Nena\u2019 album.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nena and Buttercup<\/span><\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Something I\u2019ve long admired about the Southern California music scene is the support musicians give other musicians. I know I\u2019ve seen you both out in support of other players. \u201cWe love it. Sometimes I need a night to recover and rest my ears, but we go often. A lot of it is, we believe in supporting the scene as much as possible. I\u2019ve worked really hard, and still work really hard in our music community to try to support and bring people together. I\u2019m the connector to people; you can ask anyone. I get calls from booking agents around town as well as musicians. Emails \u2018can you recommend somebody for this? Do you know if so-and-so can do this?\u2019\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cI\u2019m free with information, too. I believe it helps us all. Deane and I have started mentoring younger artists and I\u2019m very opinionated. I\u2019m not mean about it, it\u2019s supposed to be constructive and there\u2019s the thing about pushing the community to grow a little bit. Even with the young artist, \u2018No, you don\u2019t play that gig for free. Ask for money. It affects all of us. It doesn\u2019t have to be a lot of money.\u2019 Just those basic kind of things that are so important.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your life is pretty full, with family, animals, gardens, art and your vast assortment of musical projects\u2026 \u201cI always have something to do!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cI don\u2019t like to sit around. I don\u2019t watch TV, I go all day long. I\u2019m cleaning the house or working in the garden. I\u2019m doing something constantly until I\u2019m literally falling into bed and passing out at night. That\u2019s just how I am. It\u2019s exhausting!\u201d <\/strong>(laughing) \u201cI admire my husband because if he needs a brain break during the day, he\u2019ll read for an hour or something, and I\u2019m like, Oh, I wish I could do that! I can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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