Neko Case has great taste and a heavenly voice. But. And it is a major "but". She cannot write a catchy song. If you like her formless mood pieces, and I wish I could, then good on ya. But when she covers other people's songs, she is incredible. I have a dozen or so songs by her on my iTunes that are covers. They are all in the top 25 most played. She had a very scarce album called Canadian Amp that is all covers. There is a song on there called Andy that is superb. Most of her live album The Tigers Have Spoken is covers, and it is her best album as a result. If I had limitless amounts of money, I'd pay to have her record about 15 classic country and pop songs with her excellent touring band and her excellent background singers Kelly Hogan and Carolyn Mark and that would probably be the best record of the decade, if not of all time. She's that good. But she needs to let someone else write the songs.

Posted by: Lexington Green on March 25, 2006 06:48 PM

WhiskyPrajer started the tearjerkin' song roundup, and I have had a great time playing along. Amazing what great music you might have missed, thanks to these two nice bloggers, I have certainly increased my music library with some delicious tunes.

I don't think I have finished my 10 song lineup, got sidetracked for a bit - my life story.

Thanks for the mention!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie on March 26, 2006 05:16 PM

Wow, I couldn't disagree more with Lex about Case's songwriting. In fact, it was one of the things that struck me as unique, someone with such an amazing voice and ability to interpret standards who can also write fantastic songs. Check out No Need to Cry from the album Furnace Room Lullaby. Great stuff.

And thanks for the mention, Los Blowhards.

Posted by: the patriarchy on March 27, 2006 10:28 AM






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