Neko Case plans northeastern swing
Thursday, January 3, 2008 – Neko Case is scheduled to set off in late January for a six-date tour which will take her through the northeastern U.S. to many cities where she has never played before.
November saw the re-release of a deluxe version of the widely lauded "Fox Confessor Bring the Flood" 2007 also marked the re-release of Neko's 2002 "Blacklisted" and "Furnace Room Lullaby" (2000).
During the year, Case toured with Rufus Wainwright, appeared at the inaugural Stagecoach Music Festivaland recorded a disc with the New Pornographers.
Tour dates are:
Jan. 25 - Tarrytown, NY at Music Hall
Jan. 26- Ithaca, NY at State Theatre
Jan. 27- Burlington, VT at Higher Ground
Jan. 31 - Albany, NY at The Egg
Feb. 1-Providence, RI at Lupos
Feb. 2 - Northampton, MA at Calvin Theatre
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Chanteuse Neko Case seems to have a taste for animal flesh - at least in the titles of her albums. Her last CD, �The Tigers Have Spoken,� featured Case in a live setting. Having returned to the studio (after a stint with her other project, Canadian power popsters The New Pornographers), Case seems to be pushing into new terrain.
Her voice is more ethereal in selections such as �Margaret vs. Pauline� or �Hold On, Hold On� (which also features great rat-a-tat-tat drums by Travis Good). ...
Neko Case is blessed with a dynamic clarion of a voice- emotionally powerful, yet expressing a beguiling openness and vulnerability. On this, her third full-length record, she's left the scattershot variety of her debut, "The Virginian" and the torch and twang-rock of her follow-up "Furnace Room Lullaby" behind for darker territory.
The new record is dark, forbidding and dread-filled. Case's writing, arguably more effective than ever (all but two songs are her own), sets the mood that's then ...
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