The Tigers Have Spoken

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 34:16

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04.22.11
Neko Case, The Tigers Have Spoken
Label: Anti Records / Epitaph

The Canadian singer Neko Case was born far too late to be a Nashville star in the '60s, but that's not going to stop her: she loves the emotive force and glamour of old Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn records. But she's actually an indie-rock star — she also sings with the New Pornographers — and often far more charismatic and connected with songs on stage than in the studio. So collaborating with the Sadies and others on this live album of vintage country covers, like-minded originals ("If You Knew" could pass for an oldie) and a few ringers (like Boston garage band the Nervous Eaters '"Loretta"), heavily dosed with reverb and pedal steel guitar, is as close as she's gotten to that ideal.

The Tigers Have Spoken could almost be a 40-year-old recording of some forgotten country singer, ostracized by the Grand Ole Opry for hewing too close to the rock & roll. Ostracism, actually, is Case's favorite subject to sing about here — as she interprets both Lynn's divorcée's-lament "Rated X" and the traditional gospel song "Wayfaring Stranger," they're pointedly about being exiled from where she wants to be. The album's high point is a great crossover moment: a… read more »

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In the press release that accompanies Neko Case’s 2004 live album, The Tigers Have Spoken, the singer (and her record company) insist quite strongly that this isn’t meant to be a stopgap release on the way to her next studio project. To be blunt, Case protests a bit much on this issue — an album featuring two re-recorded originals and five covers out of 11 tracks is carrying an awful lot of padding for something intended to be a proper “new” release. But if The Tigers Have Spoken is really intended to keep fans occupied until Case finishes her next project, she thankfully hasn’t abandoned her standards of quality control along the way, and delivers some splendid music on this disc. Recorded over the course of three gigs in the spring of 2004, The Tigers Have Spoken features Case backed by fellow gifted Canadians the Sadies, whose web of deep, lonesome twang fits Case’s repertoire like a glove, with Jon Rauhouse sitting in on pedal steel with his usual grace and flawless feel, and Kelly Hogan and Carolyn Mark contributing backing vocals that are little short of glorious. But the reason Neko Case is headlining over this stellar cast is because she has one of the finest voices to emerge from pop music in recent memory, and she’s in firm command of her instrument on these performances. Allowing herself more room to rock than on 2002′s Blacklisted, Case rips it up on covers of classic tunes by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Loretta Lynn, and the Shangri-Las, and “The Tigers Have Spoken” and “Hex” show Case isn’t saving all her good new songs for the next album. Maybe Case is biding her time with The Tigers Have Spoken, but she sure isn’t wasting it — if it’s a relatively minor effort, it still sounds like the work of a major artist, and there’s lots of pleasure to be found in it. – Mark Deming

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