Immediately striking a more confident tone, Case – who was born in Virginia but raised in Washington – settled into her role as alt-country’s most assured female singer and songwriter on ‘Furnace Room ...

And you can wipe that smirk off your face right now, stetson-phobes, because ‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ is a great stroke of post-alt-country near-genius. With the benefit of 21st century reason and a ...

Singer-songwriter Neko Case has a classic country-music voice: powerful, throaty, vulnerable. It's the kind of voice that helped make Nashville, and upon which Nashville later turned its back. No ...

Some people are said to have a tear in their voice, the ability to convey sadness without saying a word, to bring that same tear to your eye as you listen. Neko Case has the wind in her voice. Not a ...