When
it comes to the art of telling tales, Jim Thompson
had it pegged. "There are 32 ways to write
a story," the noir author famously observed,
"but only one plot: Things are not as they
seem." The story of Neko Case, similarly,
could be told a number of different ways; but
the facts, as always, yield only a part of the
truth.
There is the basic, by now familiar biographical
arc: Case's childhood in Washington State, art
school in Vancouver, her early baptism into
the world of country and gospel music, and contemporary
gigs in distaff punk trios Maow and Cub, as
well as a longer (and ongoing) stint in powerhouse
Canadian pop group the New Pornographers. Since
the late '90s, however, the bulk of Case's energies
have been devoted to a thriving solo career.
Following three critically lauded studio albums,
1997's The Virginian, 2000's Furnace Room Lullaby,
and 2002's masterful Blacklisted; a quietly
potent kitchen-recorded EP, Canadian Amp; and
last year's brilliantly conceived concert collection
The Tigers Have Spoken, Case reemerges with
her latest, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
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April 20, 2009
8:00pm
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