Eight Gigs: Neko Case

Neko Case’s early records have plenty of twang, but she never sounded like a honky-tonk cliché. With each album, she’s taken one step further away from anything recognizably country. Her last album, 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, is undeniably her best effort—just a sheer force of emotions and self-confidence in the form of a folk-rock masterpiece. Earlier this year, she recorded a collaborative record with K.D. Lang and Laura Viers. It’s perhaps a bit more country than the last couple of albums, but it also dives head first into ’70s soft rock in the best way possible.