Hometown: US

"Neko Case is on her way to well-deserved status as a music legend for our generation." Bust Magazine

Neko was born in Alexandria, VA and grew up all over North America, spending enough time in Tacoma, WA to consider it her hometown. When she was 18 and already on her own, she began playing drums in several punk rock bands including Cub and Vancouver trio Maow. It was during her days as a drummer that she made her first forays into songwriting, and then to singing. Once she started, she couldn't stop.

Since then, Neko has been hard at work, touring non-stop in her van, the Ultra-Beaver. She is not simply a solo artist; she dives into any opportunity to work with other musicians. Among her other projects is the beautiful old-time country she sings with Carolyn Mark as the Corn Sisters. She also records and performs as one of The New Pornographers and has lent her considerable talents to projects with The Sadies, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Jon Rauhouse and many others.

Representative Quote: "I hate the Internet. I'm going to get famous the old-fashioned way, one person at a time."

"That voice: tall and mighty as Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam, a rushing brook laying down the silt of years, hydroelectrifying every note with a torrid stream and blinked-back tears." Village Voice

"So what does her country stuff sound like? Goddamned exceptional is what it sounds like. Dramatic, gutsy, mysterious, powerful; you name it. It's forthright and passionate, and it sincerely knocks my socks off." Tom Forget, Bust Magazine

"She treats Americana like a wellspring of weirdness, not a retro refuge, keening over ghostly pedal steel like a twangier (and more lucid) version of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval." Spin

Compilation Tracks:

"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Heart Attack

"Chic-A-Go-Go! Salutes Bloodshot Records" featuring Neko Case on the DVD Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records' Life In The Trenches

"Brown Eyed Handsome Man on Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson

"River Of No Return" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Rodeo

"Stay a Little Longer" on the Pine Valley Cosmonauts' Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills

"Favorite" w/ Jon Rauhouse on Down to the Promised Land

"Poor Ellen Smith" on the Pine Valley Cosmonaut's Executioner's Last Songs: Volume 1

"The World Is Waiting For A Sunrise" on Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Air Show

"Cowhand" on The Sadies' Precious Moments

"Rated X" on Making Singles, Drinking Doubles

"Porchlight" on the soundtrack album to The Slaughter Rule

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