Peter Case - Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
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Music CD Cover Artist: Peter Case Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2007-08-07 Music Label: Yep Roc Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John Album
Free Music Review: The One We've Been Waiting For
Hit: 5 Stars
I read somewhere that Lester Bangs used to listen to an album beginning to end in one sitting and sometimes over and over beginning to end in one sitting before even thinking about writing a review. I used to do that all the time (the listening-all-the-way-through part, not the review writing). It's hard for me to find time to do that one-sitting thing anymore. But I did it one early morning with Peter Case's new album `Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John' -- 'Every 24 Hours' through 'Palookaville' at about 5:30 or so ... then 'Get Away Blues' through 'That Soul Twist' on the drive in to work (with a little sitting in the parking garage to get it all in).
This album begins with Case "driving" down the road, a place with which he is intimately familiar (having left his childhood home at 15 and traveled through the Northeast and Midwest with his guitar on his way to the West Coast, where he was a street singer in San Francisco in the early 70s and became the singer-songwriter icon he is now, living in Los Angeles). The album ends in the same place (albeit further down the line) as its final song 'That Soul Twist' saunters leisurely on until it's just out of sight, the notes dissipating just over the horizon. Indeed, the road is central to this album's genius. Case himself refers to the road possessively on this album as `my highway' ... and the truth is we all benefit from joining him on his journey through this collection of songs.
With `Sleepy John,' Case continues (as with all his albums) to capture the pivotal themes of life -- every life is as valuable as the next ...every life is made up of experiences that are as real as the next ... no one is a label or should be labeled ... justice, grace, compassion and, above all, Love are essential ... we all face the `fork in the road' referenced in the classic Peter Case song `Beyond the Blues' (recorded on `Six Pack of Love' and done compellingly live by Case on the recent tribute to his music `A Case for Case') ... and, in the end, as Case sings on this new album, `it's how you live and why.'
I once read about Case's `Beyond the Blues,' "... i love the way he does it in performance (especially when he unplugs his guitar so that it sounds like a guitar!!!! and sings off mike so his voice sounds like a voice!!!! ...)." My dearest friend, who I introduced to Case's music almost 20 years ago, says that "anything peter does acoustically and any song he sings about love and any song LIVE makes me fall in love with the entire world, during those songs everything is beautiful, even the sh***y stuff [in life]...." These observations could not be more accurate. And this album is presented in just that fashion ... pure, honest, essential.
Case's `Sleepy John' album is required listening. It is the Peter Case album we've been waiting for.