Description
Depending on which album you pick up, Peter Case can be a hard-edged rocker, a contemplative folkie, or a singer and songwriter with his heart in the blues, and there’s a little bit of all three men on 2015’s HWY 62, Case‘s first studio album since 2010’s Wig. While HWY 62‘s arrangements are largely acoustic, this album is quiet like a 3 a.m. jam session, with a low decibel count but plenty of emotional intensity, and Case‘s vocals are all subtle fire on these sessions, passionate and with plenty to say even when he whispers. HWY 62 finds Peter Case rockin’ the blues a little bit and singing with serious heart, soul, and wisdom all the time, and nearly three decades into his solo career he remains one of our best and most compelling singer/songwriters, with this album as proof.
