Peter Case - singer, songwriter, troubador, voice of the road and the roadhouse, the alt.folk storyteller, the wordsmith, poet and survivor, the "a guitar makes a band" wanderer, the voice I have listed to for hours in cars, apartments, houses, record players, tape players, CDs and computers, in tiny guitar shops, in rock palaces and coffee shops, the literal soundtrack of Water and Power, the performer who sang his heart out every single time I saw him, underwent emergency heart surgery on January 15 of this year. Like many artists - well, like many of us - he didn't have insurance. He's doing well, but has a long recovery and huge medical bills.
A benefit website has been set up at http://www.hiddenlovemedicalrelief.com/ If you have ten bucks (or more) and credit card (or a paypal account), you can help. The organizers have put this together because they have played with and admired and listened to Peter Case for a long time, too. And now we can give back. Click on the CD covers to play samples (thanks amazon previews):
There's a lot more at http://www.petercase.com/.
There's a lot more at http://www.petercase.com/.
Reading: Evidence of Things Unseen
Listening to: Peter Case, Put Down the Gun (click on song title below to listen)
Blooming: Hyacinth
On the hills outside of town
Where the green fields sway with lavender
Mustard and Queen Anne's Lace
Where the silent clouds go sailing
In a sea of Dutchman's blue
And the lonesome tracks
By the railroad cut
Make me think of you
And the train we missed...
-Peter Case, Put Down The Gun, from The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar
A Million Miles Away is what rock is all about.
