Name: Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?
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SKU: 60336
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Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?

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Album: Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile?
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wake Up Call - (new track)
2)	My Generation's Golden Handcuff Blues - (new track)
3)	Crooked Mile - (live, live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, California 2004)
4)	Blind Luck
5)	Spell of Wheels
6)	On the Way Downtown
7)	Let Me Fall
8)	Two Heroes
9)	Blues Distance
10)	Coulda Shoulda Woulda
11)	Cold Trail Blues
12)	If You've Got a Light to Shine
13)	Something's Coming
14)	I Hear Your Voice
15)	First Light
16)	Gone

Performer Notes

Personnel: Peter Case (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, electric piano); Peter Case; Andrew Williams (guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonium, background vocals); Joshua Case (guitar, Wurlitzer organ, computer); Warren Klein (tamboura); Lili Haydn (violin); Gabe Witcher (fiddle); Eric Rigler (Uilleann pipe); Jeff Big Dad Turmes (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Darrell Leonard, Joe Sublett (horns); David P. Jackson (double bass, upright bass); Dave Meshell (electric bass, bass guitar); Jerry Scheff (electric bass); Sandy Chila (drums); Steven Soles, Billy Swan (background vocals); Brad Rice (guitar, electric guitar); Greg Leisz (guitar, lap steel guitar, gut-string guitar); Willie Aron (electric piano); Bryan Head (glockenspiel, drums); Don Heffington (drums, bodhran, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Joshua Case.
Liner Note Author: Peter Case.
Recording information: McCabe's (2004); McGabe's Guitar Shop (2004); Mike Meltzer's The Means Of Production Studio, Van Nuys (2004).
Photographer: Greg Allen .
Unknown Contributor Role: Rob Evanoff.
Peter Case has been consistently making great records since the Plimsouls first went into a recording studio in 1980, and while his solo albums for Vanguard Records haven't received the same degree of attention as his first two sets for Geffen (Peter Case and The Man With the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar, arguably his best and best-known records), it's certainly not a matter of his work not being up to snuff. Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile? is a compilation album that presents three new tracks alongside 13 songs culled from the albums Torn Again, Full Service No Waiting, Flying Saucer Blues, and Beeline, and if you want a potent reminder of just how good a songwriter Case is, and how well he can make his material work in the studio, this album offers the evidence in spades. From the clean-lined character study of "Spell of Wheels" to the wild shaggy dog story of "Two Heroes," Case is a born storyteller who can get the details of a whole life down in three or four minutes, and his musical instincts range from the rockabilly sway of "Coulda Woulda Shoulda," the lean folkie warmth of "Blind Luck," and the blues-infused stomp of "Two Heroes" while all reflecting his sharp but open-hearted personality. And the new material proves the guy still has the goods, with the new live recording of the title track showing that Case remains a potent and passionate live performer and "Wake Up Call" offering a musically and lyrically edgy editorial on the war in Iraq. If you're unfamiliar with this phase of Case's career (or his career in general), Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile? is an excellent introduction, and more than a few longtime fans will find this well-chosen compilation an engaging and occasionally surprising listen. ~ Mark Deming