Live from Austin TX [Digipak]

Performer: Neko Case
Engineer: David Cullen; David Hough; Sharon Cullen; David Hough
Producer: Cameron Strang; Gary Briggs; Terry Lickona; Cameron Strang; Jay Woods; Gary Briggs
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Neko Case (vocals, guitar); Neko Case; Jon Rauhouse (guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo); Tom V. Ray (bass instrument); Kelly Hogan (vocals). Audio Mixers: Gary Briggs; Chet Himes. Liner Note Author: Terry Lickona. Recording information: Austin, TX. Editor: Gary Laird. Photographer: Scott Newton. An appearance on the long-running PBS program Austin City Limits works as an alt-country equivalent to playing the Grand Ole Opry, helping to establish an artist's prominence in the rootsier outposts of country and folk. And while Neko Case was well on her way to becoming alt-country royalty long before her 2003 appearance on ACL, the 2007 release of that performance shores up Case's status as one of the finest country singers around, period. The set list is nearly evenly divided between covers and originals (most taken from her 2002 album, BLACKLISTED), but whether she's running through Dylan ("Buckets of Rain"), Hank Williams ("Alone and Forsaken"), her own songs ("Deep Red Bells" is a standout), or the work of her contemporaries (Catherine Irwin's "Hex"), it's her soaring vocals that garner the most attention. In fact, it's Case's voice that goes the furthest in doing away with the need to distinguish between various strains of country music, for her singing is as timeless as it is contemporary, and as hauntingly foreign as it is warmly familiar.

Uncut (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he stripped-down setting nicely illuminates her wondrous vocal instrument and canny readings."

Armed with one of the most lush and disarming voices in pop music, Neko Case brought the DIY approach of her punk past to bear on the country singer-songwriter tradition. Releasing her first album in 1997 under the moniker Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, Case has proven herself to be both an adventurous interpreter (with unlikely renditions of Queen and Scott Walker songs) as well as a skilled songwriter. By faithfully covering standards by Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb, Case declared her allegiance to country's proud heritage, but collaborations with the likes of Giant Sand and indie-popsters The New Pornographers point to a restless creative spirit.

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