Who is neko case

I was sick of being a girl. After leaving home, she built an alternative sort of family around her, composed of bandmates and collaborators. What the fuck? A lot was destroyed and a lot was lost. The things that have been lost to history — they did a sloppy job of killing and burying them. Hearing Case talk about the Amazons makes me think about a moment on the new album, that, as the poet Seamus Heaney once wrote , catches the heart off guard and blows it open.

She just came in and nailed it. Can you play me every single note that could go between them? When Case first started playing in punk bands, she played the drums — and got behind the microphone only because everyone had to. If anything, her songs seem developed as playgrounds for her voice, which is often the centerpiece of any writing about her. She considers it hers, and likes to describe it truthfully. Case looked like a curious lion among them.

Case was, after all, a Pacific Northwest girl. Just because you're standing here doesn't make it cool now. My heartbreak is nothing. Brutal honesty can be a beautiful thing.

They take a lot of abuse for it. But colonization, colonialism — they go hand in hand with misogyny and patriarchy. In practice, that means calling bullshit on a lot that passes through her timeline, real and figurative. Lang and Laura Veirs. From there, she wrote with old friends like Paul Rigby, her longtime touring guitarist and collaborator, as well as her New Pornographers bandmate A.

I like being in a gang. How long was it until you were able to get back to see what was going on? Neko Case: About three weeks. I felt so helpless. I have a very good support system, and they had everything under control. I had nothing to go back to, frankly. All the animals were safe and taken care of. I try not to think about it. Mind you, my insurance company has been amazing, but it is not a fast process.

My house burned while Puerto Rico was underwater, right after Houston, right before all the fires in California. So many people lost so much more than I did. I had taken a bunch of pictures in my house after I got home, and some of the images were so beautiful and fit the title.

There was a print of the Grand Canyon in my living room, and the fire had burned it through the back of the wall, and it was the most beautiful tableau of this crazy disaster.

We were gonna use a picture of that, but this was just a more immediate image. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood followed in and fared moderately well on the Billboard charts, peaking at number 54 and introducing a wider audience to Case 's dark, country-noir style. The concert recording Live from Austin, TX was released one year later, capturing a performance for Austin City Limits, and Case contributed vocals to the New Pornographers ' Challengers before returning to her adopted hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Recording sessions for a new album took place in that home environment, as well as Brooklyn, Toronto, and Case 's newly purchased farm in Vermont where songs were tracked in a barn.

The resulting album, Middle Cyclone , was released several months later in March In , Case took a look back at her solo career to date with the box set Truckdriver Gladiator Mule , which collected all her solo releases from to In , Case released a collaborative project with fellow Canadian country-pop vocalist k.

In , Case released her first solo album in five years, Hell-On , which she also produced. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Walking through her collection, Case becomes a beaming tour guide, offering ample stories and even helping out with the photo shoot we ended up using her guitar photos.

Hearing her talk about them is like hearing proud parents talk about their kids. Case admits she stumbled upon the tenor guitar by sheer luck. For years before that I had tried to play six-string guitar, but I have really tiny little hands and I could never really get going enough for it to sound like music. It was really hard for me to stretch my fingers like that. I just remember picking [the tenor] up and my hand fitting around the neck so perfectly.

After playing the Gibson acoustic for a while, Case went after something a little harder to find: an electric tenor guitar.

It was the weirdest story. The guitar was a vintage Gretsch Duo Jet tenor from And he saved my ass. I started making payments on the guitar. There was a receipt for Cooder in the case from a repair store in Los Angeles! I was so angry. Over the next couple of years, she added to the stable a Martin T, an ultra-rare Gibson Les Paul tenor TV yellow , a couple of National tenors an early tricone resonator model and a later, wood-bodied model with pickup and, finally, a rarer-still, custom-ordered Gibson SG Special tenor with two original four-pole Ps.

The instrument was purchased from Elderly Instruments in Michigan. The SG is light, it sounds great, the pickups are great.