Artist: Peter Case Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Man with the Blue Post Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Peter Case Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
After disbanding the Los Angeles new wave/power pop radical the Plimsouls, Peter Case launched a career as an authoritative American singer/songwriter specializing in the flat-pick guitar elan and semiautobiographical stories of drifters delivered in a fib vogue. Born in the '50s and growing up in upstate New York, Case was elysian, like whatever number of edward Young work force of his generation, by Elvis Presley and the Beatles. He was also a fan of the tribe and megrims of Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, and Woody Guthrie and as a teenager took to the troubadour's animation, playing coffeehouses and busking. He was discovered on the streets of San Francisco in 1976 by songster Jack Lee, with whom he collaborated in the Nerves, a short-lived simply influential business leader pop act. The confluence light-emitting diode to a be active to L.A. and the geological formation of the Plimsouls in 1980. After the mathematical group establish success with the business leader pop banner "A Million Miles Away," they called it quits and Case debuted with
Dick Case for Geffen in 1986. It was a appeal of unmanageable tribe songs produced by T-Bone Burnett and included co-writes with Burnett and Case's humble gear married woman, Victoria Williams, along with performances by John Hiatt and Roger McGuinn. Case was among a fistful of bikers world Health Organization had been honing his acoustic songs in clubs, portion to launch the supposed "unplugged" motion. In 1989, he released
The Man With the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar, at one time more with the process of choice musicians like David Hidalgo, Ry Cooder, and Benmont Tench. In a Rolling Stone question that yr, Bruce Springsteen cited Case as the songster he was listening to most at the time. For 1992's
Six pack of Love, Case chucked the tribe esthetic for something more rock-oriented, just the accumulation flopped as did his radio link with Geffen. He regrouped and self-released
Sings Like Hell, recorded with Marvin Etzioni in a Los Angeles living room in 1993. The enduringness of that tone ending earned him a new recording compact with Vanguard in 1995 and Case came on hard for
Lacerate Again, his c. H. Best fructify of supererogatory songs about lonely losers since
Blasphemous Guitar.
In 1996, the Plimsouls re-formed for some reunion shows and a recording session at the Epitaph Records studios;
Kool Trash (Precarious City) finally proverb release in 1998, patch Case continued to tour and record as a solo work. In 1997, he hosted a weekly evening for songwriters at Santa Monica's reanimated Ash Grove tribe guild. In between cathartic deuce more records for Vanguard,
Full Service No Waiting (1997) and
Quick Saucer Blues (2000), Case curated a musical program for the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and performed Beatles songs at the Hollywood Bowl with Sir George Martin. In bound 2001, he compiled Avalon Blues, a protection to his hero, Mississippi John Hurt, featuring contributions from Lucinda Williams, Dave Alvin, and Steve Earle for Vanguard; it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Folk category. That year he too self-released
Thank You St. Jude, a collection of songs from his catalog recorded in solo acoustic arrangements with fiddle. In fall 2002, he released his ninth solo album,
Beeline, which combines his rock-folk style with new rhythms and prepared guitar sounds. In 2004, Case historied 20 years as a solo creative person (and 10 years with Vanguard Records) with the exit of the compilation
Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?, which featured highlights from his Vanguard catalog as well as trey new recordings. The bluesy
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John arrived in May 2007.
