Neko Case - Live from Austin TX - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This debut Austin City Limits performance from August 2003, captures songs from Neko Case's three seminal solo releases up to that time, combining elements of country, gospel and punk for a very unique sound. Her voice has been described as rich, torchy, melancholic - even scary (someone once wrote that Inchshe sings like Patsy Cline's ghostInch). Neko began her career as a drummer in a punk band, but it wasn't long before she started experimenting with songwriting and singing. She also continues to perform as a member of The New Pornographers, but her solo work is where her songwriting skills shine most. As she herself says, InchI want to write songs that are timeless... maybe just something more like a novel than a short story.Inch Album Tracks 1. Favorite 3 29 2. Outro with Bees 1 24 3. Behind the House 3 02 4. Ghost Wiring 2 42 5. Deep Red Bells 3 45 6. Knock Loud 2 17 7. Hex 4 46 8. Maybe Sparrow 2 40 9. Wayfaring Stranger 3 00 10. Furnace Room Lullaby 2 54 11. In California 3 20 12. Buckets of Rain 2 48 13. Look for Me [I'll Be Around] 3 25 14. Alone and Forsaken 3 04

Reissue of Neko Case's debut album! InchNeko Case wails with a remarkable intensity that merits all of the comparisons to the best work of the classic women of country music - PitchforkInch Album Tracks 1. Timber 2. Bowling Green 3. Jettison 4. High on Cruel 5. Karoline 6. Lonely Old Lies 7. Honky Tonk Hiccups 8. The Virginian 9. Duchess 10. Thanks a Lot 11. Somebody Led Me Away 12. Misfire

Neko is a major poet by any standard, a songwriter less intersted perhaps in traditional narrative form than in distilling a pure moment of time. She claimes no genre, nor utilizes any calssic formula for her songs and singing. More than anything she trhives in the spaces in between her music. After two years in the making FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD is in many ways the sum total of her journey. Album Tracks 1. Margaret Vs. Pauline 2. Star Witness 3. Hold on, Hold on 4. A Widow's Toast 5. That Teenage Feeling 6. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 7. John Saw That Number 8. Dirty Knife 9. Lion's Jaws 10. Maybe Sparrow 11. At Last 12. The Needle Has Landed