Track Listing

1. Too Many Pills
2. Not a Doll
3. No More for You
4. She's Leaving Town
5. Fist City
6. Matineed
7. Love Me
8. Long Black Veil
9. Howling at Midnight
10. High on Cruel
11. 90 Miles an Hour
12. Don't Let Me Cross Over
13. Endless Grey Ribbon
14. Corn on the Cob
15. This Little Light
16. Bonus Track - The Corn Sisters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40869 in Music
• Released on: 2004-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

From Amazon.com
With her Boyfriends, Neko Case blurs the line between rock and country, but when playing the rare gig as one-half of the Corn Sisters, she's all roots. Here, along with Sister Carolyn Mark, you'll find 16 laid-back and unpolished acoustic tunes (some covers, some originals) recorded one fateful night in 1998 at Seattle diner/bar Hattie's Hat. The songs vary in spunk, but most of Case's influences are exposed here--stripped-down covers of Loretta Lynn's "Fist City," Lucinda Williams's "Howlin' at Midnight," and one standard, "This Little Light of Mine," are all impressive. Everly Brothers-inspired harmonies abound, and, on the handful of folksy originals, Mark steals the show. From the lovesick ballad "Matinéed" to the more-upbeat "Not a Doll" (sounding slightly like Mary Lou Lord's better material), these are great tunes. Neko Case completists will want to hear this project (and Neko's work with power-popsters the New Pornographers), and alt-country fans won't be disappointed by this low-key, fun hootenanny. --Jason Verlinde