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| Singer/songwriter Peter Case is releasing two new recordings including some spoken word material and a few demos. |
Two new releases on Bandcamp Friday! "Bomblight Prayer Vigil," a spoken/word/ country-blues songcycle (check it out here), and “I Didn’t Build This World, But I Sure Can Tear It Down,” 15 tracks of demos and unreleased songs (have a look here).
"Most of these tracks for I Didn't Build This World, But I Sure Can Tear It Down" were recorded as demos in the early to mid 2000s at Stan Ridgway’s legendary but short lived Lumberyard Studio, on Pico Blvd in LA. But in any event, the songs point toward "WIG!" and the Grammy-nominated "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" album. As usual I’m obsessed here with country blues, singing a cover of Honey Boy Edwards, and Stacker Lee, the way my mentor Michael Wilhelm showed it to me back in 1974. Let me add that “First Light” was recorded live at McCabe’s in 2004."When the Catfish is in Bloom" was recorded mid-2000’s by Kevin Jarvis for a John Fahey tribute album. And extra mention and super THANKS to Greg Smith aka Blind Pig Press for the artwork!"
Adds artist Greg Smith "Hey folks—the six-colour linoblock that i did way back in 2017 depicting Peter Case is now the cover for one of a pair of new releases out today! The print is entitled ‘Peter Case Sees a Broken and Troubled America and Tries to Heal it with Song.’ I’m not sure anyone can heal America, but after seeing him in March, i know he’s trying! I added the type for the cover (the font is my own and taken from the picket signs when we were last on strike not long after the print was finished).
Watch Peter perform "Beyond The Blues" with Sid Griffin and "Entella Hotel" solo, a Tea With Tosh segment from way back in 1987 and some memories of busking with Allen Ginsberg outside of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco just because.
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