Biography
Three distinctive and accomplished women joined forces under the name case/lang/veirs, uniting Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs for a shared recording project. By the 2000s Case had evolved from her alt-country origins into a widely admired indie rock songwriter, issuing well-received albums such as 2006’s Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and 2009’s Middle Cyclone. Veirs, meanwhile, crafted folk-tinged material whose intelligent, introspective songs brought her wider recognition through releases including 2004’s Carbon Glacier and 2005’s Year of Meteors. Both women counted themselves admirers of lang, the Canadian singer who foreshadowed the alt-country movement during the 1980s via offbeat, country-leaning records like 1987’s Angel with a Lariat and 1989’s Absolute Torch and Twang, then moved toward more intimate, pop-leaning work with the successful 1992 album Ingenue. Lang initiated contact in 2013, writing each of them an email whose text read, “I think we should make a record together.” Although the three had never met in person, mutual respect for one another’s music prompted all to commit to the venture. Case and lang contributed guest vocals to Veirs’ 2013 album Warp and Weft, after which the trio spent the following two years co-writing new songs. Producer Tucker Martine oversaw tracking at a Portland, Oregon facility, with further sessions taking place in Veirs’ temporary home studio and lang’s loft. The resulting album, issued by Anti- Records in June 2016 under the title case/lang/veirs, was promoted through an extensive concert tour.
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