Artist: Peter Case
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
Peter Case – A guitar makes a band
Oh, the excitement Peter Case must have been feeling, staring into a pop star future so bright, he had to wear industrial-strength Hollywood Ray-Bans. It was 1979. His Los Angeles band, the Plimsouls, had been signed to a big-time record deal. His days of scuffling were over. Scuffling? When singing for change down in San [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Peter Case – Who’s Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile:Selected Tracks 1994-2004
Few singer-songwriters have wedded folk-rock traditions to pure pop bliss as effectively as Peter Case. The latter component is plenty evident in the work he’s done with the Plimsouls, but the richness of this fusion surfaces most fully on his solo albums. This generous sampling of Case’s work for the Vanguard label during the past [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Peter Case – Beeline
It is Peter Case’s blessing that he makes everything look easy, and also his curse — his seeming ease can make it difficult to appreciate just how skilled a craftsman he is. Beeline is Case’s ninth solo album and third straight solid extra-base hit, a hot streak that includes 2000′s Flying Saucer Blues and 1998′s [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Peter Case – Pine Hill Farm (Durham, NC)
With an ease and confidence most likely born during his busker days, an unplugged Peter Case dove into “Travellin’ Light” and fed off the rapt attention of the 75 people crowded into the living room at Pine Hill Farm. Four songs later, when he again reached back to 1989′s Blue Guitar for the poignant character [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Peter Case / Chuck Prophet – Schubas Tavern (Chicago, IL)
On paper, the pairing was a perfect package: Two troubadours who’ve followed equally vagabond muses down similar sidetracks. But Peter Case and Chuck Prophet weren’t touring together; this double bill was a one-night-only result of right-place/right-time good fortune. Prophet took the stage first. Like Case, whose seven solo albums since the dissolution of the Plimsouls [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Peter Case – Flying Saucer Blues
The American pop credo of “live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse” is tired and tried beyond cliché, but the “live fast for a little while, circle the wagons, cut yer losses and come back with a long-distance plan that eschews easy categorization” approach has yet to show proven results. Peter Case nearly busted [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #19 Jan-Feb 1999
Freedy Johnston / Peter Case / Alejandro Escovedo – McCabe’s Guitar Shop (Santa Monica, CA)
Freedy Johnston, Peter Case, and Alejandro Escovedo — “a three-headed folk monster,” to use Johnston’s phrase — concluded their cross-country tour with a loose but sharp performance in the intimate backroom of McCabe’s Guitar Shop that underscored their significant yet distinctly different talents as songwriters. Johnston began the show with an acoustic version of “Western [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Buddy & Julie Miller / Peter Case – Kentucky Folk Festival (Bardstown, KY)
“We’re in D, Buddy — we’re playing in D,” Peter Case hollered between songs from the sidestage where he was playing over to the mainstage, where Buddy & Julie Miller were performing at the same time. “We send this song out to Peter Case,” came the playing-along response from Julie Miller. It was a surreal [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Peter Case – Street Legal
“When I start writing,” allows Peter Case, “it’s not like I have something that I really want to say. It’s more like there are a million things to say. And I’m just trying to find my way into the world of the songs.” The world of the songs is where Case has lived most of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Peter Case’s First Flight – Ash Grove (Santa Monica, CA)
Peter Case has stumbled across a monthly stint at the once storied and recently revived folk haven known as the Ash Grove with a bold concept: Cram raw, unfiltered singer-songwriterdom down the throats of those curious fans willing to open wide. It’s called Peter Case’s First Flight, a no-frills, no-pretensions gig that includes Case and [...]
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