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Banks Of The River 5:08 02. Dig What You're Puttin' Down 4:47 03. House Rent Jump 3:18 04. New Old Blue Car 3:36 05. Look Out! 3:30 06. Thirty Days In The Workhouse 2:48 07. Ain't Got No Dough 3:50 08. My Kind Of Trouble 4:25 09. Somebody Told The Truth 4:25 10. The Words In Red 3:31 11. Colors Of Night 3:25 12. House Rent Party 3:32 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ After his tenure in the proto-power pop band The Nerves, and following the dissolution of his early-80s Los Angeles rock & roll band The Plimsouls, Peter Case launched a career as an influential American singer/songwriter specializing in fingerpicked acoustic guitar and redemptive story songs about society's outcasts and drifters, delivered in a uniquely soulful folk-rock style. Case's secret weapon is his powerhouse voice; combined with his imaginative and visionary songwriting and his ability to blow real harmonica licks, he's well respected among his peers and a perennial favorite among serious listeners. By the turn of the century, longevity was working in his favor as he continued to set the bar for contemporary singer/songwriter music. While recuperating from major heart surgery in 2009 (paid for in part by loyal fans who organized benefit shows on his behalf and remastering some old Plimsouls, Nerves, and Breakaways albums for re-release) Case was inspired to assemble a makeshift band, craft a new batch of songs, play some life-affirming gigs, and record the resulting new work. Raise your hand if you think that a set of numbers written in those circumstances would be - sweet and sunny folk-rock? Maudlin tearjerkers? They're neither. Case sidesteps pathos altogether by offering a pummeling set of dirty blues-rockers played with utter conviction by drummer DJ Bonebrake (X, the Knitters) and guitarist Ron Franklin (Gasoline Silver). The trio laid the 12 tracks on "Wig" down fast, mostly live to two-inch tape with scant overdubs, and the off-the-cuff vibe creates a thrilling authenticity, hitting the sweet spot where garage rock, punk, and the visceral wail of blues converge. Highlights include "Dig What You're Putting Down", a preening come-on that is both celebratory and baleful, with a lead vocal emanating straight from the id, as much a nod to the Cramps' Lux Interior as to the great blues singers. "House Rent Jump" - which could be about personal debt or the decline of the economy, or both - swings with a deadly insistence that is one part desperation, one part no-tomorrow revelry. The lyrics here are fittingly simple and direct, but still show flashes of Case's characteristic wit and poetic attention to detail, such as the beloved Lower East Side pizzeria and knish bakery that are name-checked in one song. Case revisits his own "Old Blue Car" (repurposed here as "New Old Blue Car") and injects it with the messy urgency of a man keen on driving all night just to keep his life moving forward. Howling lyrics he wrote over 20 years ago, Case seems to better understand the reality of them. 'Life is long and the road gets mean/but the old blue car is more than just a machine'. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Group ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘