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Neko Case
with Eric Bachmann
Sat.,
Jan 26, 2008
8:00pm
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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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