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Neko Case in Concert April 9, 2006
Advisory: This concert contains language that some may find offensive.
Neko Case Set List:
A Widow's Toast Favorite If You Knew Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Set Out Running Outro With Bees Star Witness Dirty Knife I Wish I Was the Moon The Tigers Have Spoken Maybe Sparrow Margaret Vs. Pauline Buckets of Rain Deep Red Bells Hex That Teenage Feeling Furnace Room Lullaby Hold On, Hold On Wayfaring Stranger Look For Me (I'll Be Around) John Saw That Number
NPR.org, - Though she defies most conventional genre labels, singer Neko Case swings somewhere between the worlds of heavy art rock and bittersweet country. Currently on tour for her latest CD, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Case visits Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club for a night of music, originally webcast live in its entirety on NPR.org April 9.
When she isn't singing for the Canadian power-pop group New Pornographers, Neko Case works as a solo artist, crafting gospel and country-inspired songs. For her latest CD, she collaborates with artists like The Sadies, Giant Sand leader Howe Gelb, vocalist Kelly Hogan, Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino, and others.
Early in her music career, Case played drums in punk bands. But her views on music changed when she heard an obscure spiritual album by Bessie Griffin & Her Gospel Pearls.
"I was 19," Case says. "I was heavily into punk rock, and punk rock was really dogmatic and macho. But this record made me feel like, you know what, these people are singing about something they really care about. These ladies aren't kidding. And they sing about religion with more passion than anybody sings about anything ? not about love or sex or violence or anything. It's like their voices are these crazy cannons or something. I wanted to be able to sing like that, because I thought that must've felt really good."
Case has since released a half a dozen solo albums. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood is her most critically acclaimed CD to date. |
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