Wednesday, April 22, 2009

At Last - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - 2006

Oh Neko...despite the general "Country Chanteause" label that usual gets thrown at Miss Case, there is little in her music that is familar. Sure, you can find your traces of the usual touchstones, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, even Stevie Nicks in her music. But the albums she actually produces sounds less like anything we call "Country" and more like the music being played at the country bar in Twin Peaks. In a little over a minute and a half here, miss Case manages to weave a spell using only guitars and her voice.

God bless her perpertually broken Virginian/Canadian/Ukranian heart.

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