A Taste of Case

Peter Case walks the streets armed with his acoustic guitar accompanied by the occasional whoosh of car tires After Hours on Pico Blvd in this youtube video. Perhaps too old, folkie and intelligent to be a critic's darling, Peter Case's latest disc "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" ,a bluesy tuneful take on the underbelly and underclass of our society, is on my 2007 top 10 list and rising. The late great Townes Van Zandt once said "There are two kinds of songs: blues and zippity do dah." This is not zippity do dah.

from Underneath The Stars:

now the clergy have their doubts/ are they helping lazy layabouts?/ late at night the drunken louts/ terrify the town/

the cops are young well they're just kids/ they don't know about the skids/ they just do what the gentry bids/ from the other end of town/

from A Million Dollars Bail:

there's two kinds of justice everybody knows one for folks up on the hill: the other's down below

Factoid: Richard Thompson guests on the track "Every 24 Hours"