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Artist | Peter Case
Title | Wig
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 46:15
Label | Yep Roc Records Store | 2010
Catalog | YEP-2222 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 237 kbps Size | 82.71 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Banks Of The River 5:08
02. Dig What You're Puttin' Down 4:47
03. House Rent Jump 3:18
04. New Old Blue Car 3:36
05. Look Out! 3:30
06. Thirty Days In The Workhouse 2:48
07. Ain't Got No Dough 3:50
08. My Kind Of Trouble 4:25
09. Somebody Told The Truth 4:25
10. The Words In Red 3:31
11. Colors Of Night 3:25
12. House Rent Party 3:32
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After his tenure in the proto-power pop band The Nerves, and following the
dissolution of his early-80s Los Angeles rock & roll band The Plimsouls,
Peter Case launched a career as an influential American singer/songwriter
specializing in fingerpicked acoustic guitar and redemptive story songs
about society's outcasts and drifters, delivered in a uniquely soulful
folk-rock style. Case's secret weapon is his powerhouse voice; combined
with his imaginative and visionary songwriting and his ability to blow real
harmonica licks, he's well respected among his peers and a perennial
favorite among serious listeners. By the turn of the century, longevity was
working in his favor as he continued to set the bar for contemporary
singer/songwriter music.
While recuperating from major heart surgery in 2009 (paid for in part by
loyal fans who organized benefit shows on his behalf and remastering some
old Plimsouls, Nerves, and Breakaways albums for re-release) Case was
inspired to assemble a makeshift band, craft a new batch of songs, play
some life-affirming gigs, and record the resulting new work. Raise your
hand if you think that a set of numbers written in those circumstances
would be - sweet and sunny folk-rock? Maudlin tearjerkers? They're neither.
Case sidesteps pathos altogether by offering a pummeling set of dirty
blues-rockers played with utter conviction by drummer DJ Bonebrake (X, the
Knitters) and guitarist Ron Franklin (Gasoline Silver).
The trio laid the 12 tracks on "Wig" down fast, mostly live to two-inch
tape with scant overdubs, and the off-the-cuff vibe creates a thrilling
authenticity, hitting the sweet spot where garage rock, punk, and the
visceral wail of blues converge. Highlights include "Dig What You're
Putting Down", a preening come-on that is both celebratory and baleful,
with a lead vocal emanating straight from the id, as much a nod to the
Cramps' Lux Interior as to the great blues singers. "House Rent Jump" -
which could be about personal debt or the decline of the economy, or both -
swings with a deadly insistence that is one part desperation, one part
no-tomorrow revelry.
The lyrics here are fittingly simple and direct, but still show flashes of
Case's characteristic wit and poetic attention to detail, such as the
beloved Lower East Side pizzeria and knish bakery that are name-checked in
one song. Case revisits his own "Old Blue Car" (repurposed here as "New Old
Blue Car") and injects it with the messy urgency of a man keen on driving
all night just to keep his life moving forward. Howling lyrics he wrote
over 20 years ago, Case seems to better understand the reality of them.
'Life is long and the road gets mean/but the old blue car is more than just
a machine'.
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