Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John

Peter Case - Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John

Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
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Artist: Peter Case
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Every 24 Hours
  2. Million Dollars Bail
  3. Underneath the Stars
  4. Just Hangin' On
  5. Ain't Gonna Worry No More
  6. Palookaville
  7. Get Away Blues
  8. The Open Road Sons
  9. Some Bright Mornin Blues
  10. I'm Gonna Change My Ways
  11. That Soul Twist

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Free Music Review: Natural, understated, genuine
Hit: 4 Stars

You can tell a great singer-songwriter if they're able to strip the songs down to just guitar (or piano) & vocal and make them work as good, if not better, than they would if they were fully-produced with drums, keyboards, bass, etc.

Peter Case is one of those singer-songwriters. This album is as free-flowing and natural as a conversation with the man himself. I wish more accomplished songwriters would make genuine, no-frills records like this instead of hiding behind contemporary (over)production values (a la Springsteen's latest).

Evocative of the spirit of the great bluesmen, with traces of Plastic Ono Band-era John Lennon in it's off-hand honesty and immediacy, albeit less wrenching than Lennon.

This album is timeless, while at the same time belonging unmistakably to the right here, and right now.

Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John Poster

Since his street-corner-playing days in Buffalo and on through nearly 30 years of making music, Peter Case always seemed to find time for a cover of Sleepy John Estes. Case's first album since 2002's Beeline actually goes one better, interpreting the legendary wailing blues master by stripping away adjunct instruments and pining for the carefree busking days where all that mattered were a guitar and a song to sing. And in this setting, not many can write them or sing them like Case. There are flat-picking observations on "two kinds of justice" in "Million Dollar Bail," recollections of Telly Savalas in the small-town predicaments of "Palookaville," and duets with both buddies (Carlos Guitarlos on "Underneath the Stars") and heroes (Richard Thompson on "Every 24 Hours"). There are no Estes covers, but acclimating Robert Wilkins's 80-year-old "Get Away Blues" is expressively close, as every pluck of the 12-string and lyrical tug from deep inside Case's gut does justice to the late Sleepy John. --Scott Holter
Peter Case is back with Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, his most raw, direct work in nearly a decade. This album of politically fueled songs finds America's golden troubadour in his finest form, laying down sparse, busker-style guitar work over his uniquely delivered dusty road-poetry. Now Let Us Praise Sleepy John is yet another volume in the career of one of the most storied singer/songwriters of his generation. Standard Jewel Case.

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