Neko Case Date: October 31, 2013 Venue: Lincoln Theater, Washington, DC Every year it seems, in a subconscious effort to give myself a little break from the aggressive rock and electronic music that typically gets my adrenaline pumping, I gravitate to some form of innocuous, vaguely acoustic, pretty music. I call it "chicken soup" music, and it usually comes in the form of some kind of tepid contemporary "Americana." Nice melodies, nice singing, a lil' bit country, a lil' bit rock & roll - major plus for some pedal or lap-steel guitar . Whatever evokes windswept southwestern deserts or misty Appalachian hills. In recent years it's been Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, Patty Griffin, or Calexico. This time it's Neko Case, who just put out a graceful new record called The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You . What is this, a concert for ants?! The veteran alterna-country/indie-pop singer...
My life in music. . . .