Neko Case: Further beyond country

Neko Case talks to Leonie Cooper about the ups and downs of being a country singer raised on rockEight years ago, Neko Case played a "plaza party" at the home of country music, the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It didn't go well: partway through her performance she took off her shirt. It wasn't a punk statement or anything - she was suffering from heatstroke. But the Opry, which has long been suspicious of anything with the merest whiff of the counterculture, banned her for life. "I wa...

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