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Bands of Enchantment Albuquerque Sessions.

Filmed live at the KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico Tonights band, from Nashville, Tennessee, Annie DiRusso.

- Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to get it up, get it going for... - [Group] Annie DiRusso!

(audience cheering) - Hi y'all.

(audience cheering) (upbeat music) ♪ Woo ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ If you are a pitcher of water, I'm the kitchen floor ♪ ♪ A few slippery fingers and I'm all yours ♪ ♪ If you're a pool, I'm the reckless kid ♪ ♪ Running on the tile ♪ ♪ Confident that I won't fall in ♪ ♪ Then slipping every time ♪ ♪ Wet grass, don't sit ♪ ♪ Wet dog, don't sniff ♪ ♪ Wet floor, don't slip ♪ ♪ Wet paint, don't stick ♪ ♪ Whatever you are ♪ ♪ I'm covered in it ♪ ♪ Doing my best to stay dry ♪ ♪ But everything's wet ♪ ♪ Wet, wet, wet ♪ ♪ Wet, wet, wet ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ They say there's not been A storm this bad since '85 ♪ ♪ I opened up my front door and you rushed inside ♪ ♪ Tried everything that I've ever heard ♪ ♪ To keep the flooding out ♪ ♪ Sandbags didn't work ♪ ♪ I ruined every towel in my house ♪ ♪ Wet grass, don't sit ♪ ♪ Wet dog, don't sniff ♪ ♪ Wet floor, don't slip ♪ ♪ Wet paint, don't stick ♪ ♪ Whatever you are ♪ ♪ I'm covered in it ♪ ♪ Doing my best to stay dry ♪ ♪ But everything's wet ♪ ♪ Wet, wet, wet ♪ ♪ Wet, wet, wet ♪ ♪ Wet, wet, wet, wet ♪ ♪ Doing my best to stay dry ♪ ♪ But everything ♪ ♪ Dip my toes in ♪ ♪ Watch you go in ♪ ♪ Want of all of it ♪ ♪ Yeah, I want it ♪ ♪ Take off my t-shirt and leave it with yours ♪ ♪ I'm coming back in the morning ♪ ♪ Whatever you are ♪ ♪ I'm covered in it ♪ ♪ Doing my best to stay dry ♪ ♪ Everything's wet ♪ ♪ Mmm ♪ ♪ Wet ♪ (audience cheering) - Thank you so much.

♪ Windows half down ♪ ♪ I'm grabbing the air ♪ ♪ Sure is hot in the South ♪ ♪ Been losing my hair ♪ ♪ Green turning gray ♪ ♪ Blue turning black ♪ ♪ Tried closing my eyes ♪ ♪ I'm still seeing myself in the glass ♪ ♪ I am the deer ♪ ♪ I am the driver ♪ ♪ I am the deer ♪ ♪ I am the driver ♪ ♪ I am a deer ♪ ♪ I am a driver ♪ ♪ I am the deer, I am the driver ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ I put on your shirt ♪ ♪ I hope that's okay ♪ ♪ I put on your shirt ♪ ♪ I hope that's okay ♪ ♪ You still love her, I know, that's okay ♪ ♪ And my legs still hurt ♪ ♪ From you putting them up by your face ♪ ♪ I am the deer, I am a driver ♪ ♪ I am the deer ♪ ♪ I am the driver ♪ ♪ I am the deer ♪ ♪ I am the driver ♪ ♪ I am a deer, I am a driver ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Window half down ♪ ♪ Grabbing the air ♪ ♪ Hot in the South ♪ ♪ Losing my hair ♪ ♪ Green turning gray ♪ ♪ Blue turning black ♪ ♪ Chasing my own eyes in the glass ♪ (upbeat music) (audience cheering) - I'm good.

Yeah, that's awesome.

♪ When you're back, you're back ♪ I'm just playing one song?

I'm just playing one song.

♪ I hope you don't think I'm just... ♪ Oh, my tuner's on.

Classic.

- Annie DiRusso, take two.

A to B and C cam.

(audience cheering) - Hey.

- Hey.

Hey Annie.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Was it always just like, vulnerable, here I am, or did you have like, a an aha?

A moment where it just is like, you know what?

I'm gonna put it all on the table.

♪ I swore I would take to my grave ♪ ♪ The fact I changed my flight ♪ ♪ Out of Chicago ♪ ♪ Just so I'd see you one more time ♪ - I think that when I first started writing, I was just kind of feeling it out, and I wasn't writing as much from personal experience.

In all honesty, I also just like hadn't lived that much life yet.

What speaks to me in music is the honesty.

Like, my favorite thing is listening to an artist, and feeling like they said something that I felt forever, but would never say out loud again.

♪ Letting me down again ♪ ♪ Yet I know ♪ ♪ I should know by now ♪ ♪ I heard from a friend ♪ ♪ You're still sleeping around ♪ ♪ But give a call and you're back in town ♪ As I started to write more from that perspective, and listened to more of that music too, I was like, oh.

That's what I want to do.

♪ When you're back, you're back ♪ As I'm writing, like, that's what excites me.

If it evokes some emotion in me, to me, that's worth it enough, you know?

♪ I hope you don't think I'm just waiting around ♪ ♪ But give me a call and you're back in town ♪ I always have talked a lot between songs.

My show is like, half me talking and half me singing, honestly.

And it started out with me telling the story of the songs, especially when I was opening, so I can contextualize it for people.

It's really cool to be back in Albuquerque.

(audience cheering) Except it is crazy, a little bit.

I have a bad memory here.

Yeah, I was in one other band before I started this project.

When we were on tour in Albuquerque, they kicked me out.

(audience chattering) It's okay.

The music was pretty bad, so whatever.

I was just living with my roommate who was one of my best friends.

I was just like sleeping all day, couldn't make the rent.

It got to a point where he was like, hey, would be chill if you paid your share of the rent.

(audience laughs) I was like, okay, I gotta find a way to make money quick.

And one day he was in the shower, so I picked up his phone He was a substitute teacher.

It was one of the local schools, and they were like, one of our teachers broke her leg, and we needed a sub to come in.

And I was like, yeah, I went to middle school, but it was for middle school.

I was like, I'll be there in 30 minutes.

[Audience member] School of Rock!

I pull up to the school.

I get in front of them, I'm like, I got this.

I remember being 11.

It was actually crazy and they were really mean to me.

I'm just telling you as my whole life story.

And I was kind of like, looking up curriculums in the hallway on my phone, like, how to teach like 11 year olds.

And then I heard this sound from down the hallway.

Beautiful music.

And I walked over there and it was the kids who were just being so mean to me.

And I was like, wow, these kids can really play.

And then I thought to myself, what do I know?

A little bit about something called rock music.

So I ended up, you know, subbing for these kids for a while and we just practiced as my band I created a band with them.

And we entered in the Battle of the Bands actually against my old band that kicked me out.

(audience cheering) And they beat us.

However, that is still my band today.

My former students.

(audience cheering) But I just feel like that would be a great movie.

I feel like it would be a good ass movie.

♪ Been staying out of LA ♪ ♪ Been writing all of it down ♪ ♪ Hanging on each word you say ♪ ♪ While you're chain smoking out a window in Chinatown ♪ ♪ Sitting at the edge of someone else's bed ♪ ♪ Smoking and f*cking all day ♪ ♪ One day you'll write a ass good movie ♪ ♪ 'Cause you tell good ass stories ♪ ♪ When you're lying to me ♪ ♪ Can't look away ♪ ♪ One day I'll see that good ass movie ♪ ♪ If it ever gets released ♪ ♪ If you ever do anything you say ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Who would be playing your lead ♪ ♪ 'Cause I know you wouldn't be choosing me ♪ ♪ 'Cause you think writing about sex is cheap ♪ ♪ Well, you know what I think is cheap ♪ ♪ Saying you're a writer ♪ ♪ And not writing anything ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Huh ♪ ♪ One day you'll write a good ass movie ♪ ♪ 'Cause you tell good ass stories ♪ ♪ When you're lying to me, can't look away ♪ ♪ One day I'll see that good ass movie ♪ ♪ If it ever gets released ♪ ♪ If you ever do anything you say ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ ♪ Hey hey hey ♪ (upbeat music) Albuquerque.

Y'all, I know this is a TV show.

But tonight kind of feels like a movie.

Do y'all like movies?

Do y'all like movies?

What about like, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"?

Okay, what about "Silver Linings Playbook"?

"Men in Black 2"?

What about "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part One"?

Y'all.

What about "School of Rock"?

(audience cheers) Okay, I think I'm gonna take you guys to the School of Rock tonight, Albuquerque.

And I've got a great band with me.

On bass, we've got Annie DiRusso.

Annie's favorite movie is "Where the Wild Things Are."

Behind me on drums, we've got Annie DiRusso.

Annie's favorite movie is "Boss Baby."

And to my left on lead guitar, we've got Annie f*cking DiRusso.

Annie's favorite movie is "Sex and the City: The Movie 2."

And my name is Annie DiRusso.

And my favorite movie is "Get Smart."

♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ One day you'll write a good ass movie ♪ ♪ 'Cause you tell good ass stories ♪ ♪ When you're lying to me ♪ ♪ Can't look away ♪ ♪ One day I'll see that good ass movie ♪ ♪ If it ever gets released ♪ ♪ If you ever do anything you say ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ (audience cheering) - [Zach] I just think you're so funny telling everybody that story like it was a true story but it was literally just "School of Rock."

- Yeah.

- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

I forgot about that.

We loved that so much.

We were cracking up, yeah.

Has that always been a part of your show or?

- I started off doing like a different movie according to the city, but it was like, I did "The Wizard of Oz" in Kansas.

Like it was like, I was like, I went to go stay with my aunt.

I was estranged from my parents.

And it was just like too much every night to try and like remember the plot of a movie that took place in the city.

- Right.

- And the "School of Rock" one consistently hit the hardest because it's pretty believable up to a point.

Ever since I kind of embraced it, I've been having the best time with it.

(slow guitar music) ♪ Started wearing pants again ♪ ♪ Body is awake but my brain is dead ♪ ♪ Flies on the walls ♪ ♪ Gunshots over East Park ♪ ♪ Find them when they fall ♪ ♪ Covering my backyard ♪ ♪ Started picking up again ♪ ♪ Left for the last song, can't see how it ends ♪ ♪ He's a shark among men ♪ ♪ He kissed me in the kitchen ♪ ♪ Break, I never bend ♪ ♪ I'm drunk and I don't listen now ♪ ♪ I love pain as it's settling in ♪ ♪ I went to your show ♪ ♪ F*ck, I wish that I didn't ♪ ♪ Love the sound of water ♪ ♪ As it's swallowing me whole ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ Hate the way my new room smells ♪ ♪ Keep picturing the guy who just moved out ♪ ♪ Did he drink and piss the bed ♪ ♪ Did his girlfriend f*cking hat ♪ The air is thick and gray ♪ ♪ From burning all this sage ♪ ♪ And I can't breathe ♪ ♪ I love pain as it's settling in ♪ ♪ I went to your show ♪ ♪ F*ck, I wish that I didn't ♪ ♪ Love the sound of water ♪ ♪ As it's swallowing me whole ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ I love pain as it's settling in ♪ ♪ I think I said too much ♪ ♪ F*ck, I wish that I didn't ♪ ♪ Love the sound of water ♪ ♪ As it's swallowing me whole ♪ ♪ Whole ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Started wearing pants again ♪ ♪ I think I like the way they fit ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ Well I keep sending you books I know you'll never read ♪ ♪ Guess it's all I can give ♪ ♪ That's not all of me ♪ ♪ Wrote some sh*t in the margins ♪ ♪ I hoped you might see ♪ ♪ But they just sit in your room where I'd kill to be ♪ ♪ I've never been in your room ♪ ♪ And it's killing me ♪ The songs are always kind of changing as I perform them, and a lot of times, I'll hear lines differently when I see someone else like, singing them back at me.

♪ I hope you don't think I'm just waiting around ♪ ♪ But give me a call and you're back in town ♪ And I was so shocked the first night we came out and everyone like, kind of knew all the album tracks.

I never just feel like I'm singing at people at my shows, which is awesome.

Like it feels like we're kind of having a conversation.

♪ I wanna call you up ♪ ♪ Just to see where you're at ♪ ♪ Saw it in your eyes that night ♪ ♪ The train was packed ♪ ♪ You know I'd be your girl ♪ ♪ If you would only ask ♪ ♪ Don't tell me everything ♪ ♪ Just tell me when you're ♪ ♪ Back ♪ Mostly it's just really fun.

I still can't believe it.

I feel like every night, I can't believe how lucky I am.

This is the coolest thing.

People are coming to the shows and singing all the words, and that the album meant something to people.

♪ When you're back ♪ People are like, really down to like, sing the words and be part of it.

And I think that's the coolest thing in the world.

♪ When you're back you're back ♪ ♪ When you're back you're back ♪ ♪ I hope you don't think ♪ ♪ I'm just waiting around ♪ ♪ But give me a call and you're back in town ♪ ♪ Wanna call you up just to see where you're at ♪ ♪ Saw it in your eyes that night ♪ ♪ The train was packed ♪ ♪ You know I'd be you're girl ♪ ♪ If you would only ask ♪ ♪ Don't tell me everything ♪ ♪ Just tell me when you're back ♪ (audience applauses) I met my band in Nashville.

I went to school there.

Just met them through like the indie scene there.

- Yeah.

- And it's been the best to play with them.

♪ I'm always waiting on my fall from grace ♪ ♪ Not even 22 but I think it's coming soon ♪ ♪ Can't feel my hands as they're clutching the sink ♪ ♪ I'm staring into the mirror ♪ ♪ Watching my face get weirder ♪ ♪ Keep running out of sh*t to talk about ♪ ♪ I'm a senior in college ♪ ♪ Almost flunking out ♪ ♪ Can't feel the months as they're passing me by ♪ ♪ My time's disappearing ♪ ♪ I guess it's been a year and ♪ ♪ I'm doing fine ♪ ♪ Only losing my mind every once in while ♪ ♪ And it's been cool only thinking of you ♪ ♪ Every time that I do ♪ ♪ But still it's a lot ♪ ♪ But it's not as much as I used to ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ I wonder if you burned that shirt ♪ ♪ With my face on it ♪ ♪ I really hope you did ♪ ♪ I'm losing sleep ♪ ♪ Picturing you wearing it on the street ♪ ♪ That's so disgusting to me ♪ ♪ That's so disgusting to me ♪ ♪ I wonder if I'll ever find myself in those trees ♪ ♪ Where you begged me to get on my knees ♪ ♪ Right off the path ♪ ♪ Hope I never go back now ♪ ♪ That's so disgusting to me ♪ ♪ That's so disgusting to me ♪ ♪ I'm doing fine ♪ ♪ Only losing my mind every once in while ♪ ♪ And it's been cool ♪ ♪ Only thinking you of you every time that I do ♪ ♪ Still it's a lot ♪ ♪ But it's not as much as I used to ♪ ♪ Well, used to be smart And I used to be nice ♪ ♪ Now I'm neither are those ♪ ♪ But I've been feeling all right ♪ ♪ And it used to be easy Just coasting through life ♪ ♪ Well, it's not anymore ♪ ♪ But I've been feeling all right ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ I'm doing fine ♪ ♪ Only losing my mind ♪ ♪ Every once in a while ♪ ♪ And it's been cool ♪ ♪ Only thinking of you every time that I do ♪ ♪ I'm always waiting on my fall from grace ♪ ♪ Not even 22 but I know it's coming soon ♪ (audience cheering) I think a lot of people have walked away from the shows this past year, like, not knowing that I'm lying, which worries me a little bit.

Because it like, kind of seems like, I'm like a bad person.

Like I got kicked out of this band.

I didn't pay my my rent.

I pretended to be a substitute teacher.

You know, it's like, I think that that's just something I have to live with.

Thank you guys so much.

We're Annie DiRusso.

Thank you.

- It'll hit 'em like, later on.

- One day.

- [Both] They'll be watching the movie, and they'll be like.

- Wait, I've heard about this.

(both laugh) Annie, could you give this guitar to this girl right here?

(audience cheering) (upbeat rocking guitar solo)