Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His discography consists of 14 studio albums, 3 compilations, 4 EPs, 11 singles, and 1 tribute album.
Solo albums 1986: Peter Case (Geffen) 1989: The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (Geffen) 1992: Six-Pack of Love (Geffen) 1993: Sings Like Hell (Vanguard) 1995: Torn Again (Vanguard) 1998: Full Service No Waiting (Vanguard) 2000: Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard) 2001: Thank You St. Jude (Travellin' Light) with David Perales 2002: Beeline (Vanguard) 2007: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (Yep Roc) 2010: Wig! (Yep Roc) 2015: HWY 62 (Omnivore) 2017: On the Way Downtown (Omnivore) 2016: Lost Songs and Outside Favorites (Travelin' Light) 2021: The Midnight Broadcast (Bandaloop Music) 2023: Doctor Moan (Sunset Blvd Records)
Compilations 2004: Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile? (Vanguard) 2007: Vanguard Visionaries: Peter Case (Vanguard) 2011: The Case Files (Alive) - outtakes compilation
EPs 1986: Steel Strings (Geffen) 12" UK EP - "Steel Strings" / "Old Blue Car" / "Steel Strings (acoustic version)" / "Small Town Spree" 1986: Selections from Peter Case (Geffen) 12" promo EP - "Echo Wars" / "Steel Strings" / "Old Blue Car" / "I Shook His Hand (acoustic version) / "Steel Strings (acoustic version) 1992: Selections From Six-Pack of Love (Geffen) CD promo EP - "Dream About You" / "Deja Blues" / "Why?" 2007: BeeSides (Vanguard) CD promo EP - "Beyond The Blues" / "One More Mile" / "Watch Out (Previously Unreleased)" / "Gone (alternative version)"
Singles 1986: "Steel Strings" / "Small Town Spree" (Geffen) 1986: "Old Blue Car" (Geffen) promo 12" 1989: "Put Down the Gun" (Geffen) promo CD 1989: "Put Down The Gun" / "Entella Hotel" (Geffen) 1989: "Travellin' Light" / "Put Down the Gun" (Geffen) 1992: "Dream About You" / "Wonderful 99" (Geffen) 1997: "Let Me Fall (radio edit)" (Vanguard) promo 1998: "Until the Next Time (radio edit)" (Vanguard) promo 2000: "Coulda Shoulda Woulda" (Vanguard) promo 2002: "Something's Coming (Edit)" (Vanguard) promo 2010: Live At Euclid (Euclid Records) - "Dig What You're Puttin' Down" / "Nadine"
Tribute albums 2006: various artists - A Case for Case (Hungry For Music)
As a member of The Nerves 1976: The Nerves EP (Bomp!) 2008: One Way Ticket (Alive) - reissue of 1976 EP plus demos and previously unreleased tracks 2009: Live! At The Pirate's Cove (Alive)
As a member of the Breakaways 2009: Walking out on Love (The Lost Sessions) (Bomp! / Alive)
As a member of The Plimsouls 1981: The Plimsouls (Planet) 1983: Everywhere at Once (Geffen) 1989: One Night in America (Fan Club / Oglio) 1998: Kool Trash (Fuel 2000 / Shaky City) 2010: Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (Alive) 2012: Beach Town Confidential (Live at the Golden Bear 1983) 2012: Live At The Palace, Hollywood, California 11/16/85 (Kool Kat Muzik)
As composer 1979 - 1989 1979: The Beat - The Beat (Columbia) - track 8, "U. S. A." 1979: Nana Mouskouri - Roses & Sunshine (Verve) - track 6, "Nickels and Dimes" 1981: The Go-Go's - Beauty and The Beat (I.R.S.) - track 3, "Tonite" 1983: Action Now - All Your Dreams (Lolita) - track 4, "This One Chance" (co-written with Paula Pierce) 1987: Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Jean & 9 Others (Warner Bros.) - track 8, "Steel Strings" 1987: The Nomads - Hardware (Anigo) - track 1, "Call Off Your Dogs" (co-written with Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Steven Soles) 1987: The Williams Brothers - Two Stories (Warner Bros.) - track 2, "Inch By Inch" (co-written with Charlotte Caffey)
1990 - 1994 1990: John Wesley Harding - Here Comes The Groom (Sire) - track 13, "Things Snowball" (co-written with John Wesley Harding) 1991: Four Men and a Dog - Barking Mad (CBM) - track 1, "Hidden Love" 1992: Los Valendas - Turtle Friend Extended (Munster) - track 13, "I Want What You Got" 1992: Slaters - The Big Black Bug Bled Black Blood........ (Zero Hour) - track 11, "Oldest Story In The World" 1993: Barrence Whitfield with Tom Russell - Hillbilly Voodoo (East Side Digital) - track 7, "Ice Water" (co-written with Lightnin' Hopkins) 1994: Goo Goo Dolls - Hold Me Up (Metal Blade / Priority) - track 13, "A Million Miles Away" (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes)
1995 - 2004 1995: Psychotic Youth - Bamboozle! (Wolverine) - track 9, "How Long Will It Take" 1996: Bob Neuwirth - Look Up (Watermelon) - track 5, "Beyond The Blues" (co-written with Tom Russell and Bob Neuwirth); track 8, "Everybody's Got A Job To Do" and track 10, "Traveling Light" (both songs co-written with Bob Neuwirth) 1997: John Prine - Live on Tour (Oh Boy) - track 5, "Space Monkey" (co-written with John Prine) 1998: Robert Earl Keen - Walking Distance (Arista) - track 2, "Travelin' Light" (co-written with Bob Neuwirth) 2001: Kevin Bowe - Love Songs & Murder Ballads (Okemah Prophets) - track 9, "Coulda Shoulda Woulda" - (co-written with Duane Jarvis and Kevin Bowe) 2003: Duane Jarvis - Delicious (Slewfoot) - track 1, "Coulda Shoulda Woulda" (co-written with Duane Jarvis and Kevin Bowe)
2005 - present 2005: James McMurtry - Childish Things (Compadre) - track 9, "The Old Part of Town" 2006: Chris Smither - Leave The Light On (Signature Sounds) - track 6, "Cold Trail Blues" 2007: Ingram Hill - Cold in California (Hollywood) - track 4, "A Million Miles Away" (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes) 2010: Neverever - Angelic Swells (Slumberland) - track 4, "Now" (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes) 2010: Robert Randolph and the Family Band - We Walk This Road (Warner Bros.) - track 7, "I Still Belong to Jesus"; track 14, "Dry Bones" and track 16, "I'm Not Listening" (both songs co-written with Robert Randolph, T Bone Burnett, and Tonio K.) 2011: Mark Winsick - Turnin' Wheel (self-released) - track 7, "Rise and Shine" (co-written with Victoria Williams) 2015: Dogs - Shout ! (Epic) - track 2, "One Way Ticket"
As producer 1987: The Balancing Act - New Campfire Songs (I.R.S.) 1990: Flophouse - Flophouse (Heyday) 2005: Plastic Letters - Don't Tell Your Boyfriend (Screaming Apple) 2011: Dead Rock West - Bright Morning Stars (Audio & Video Labs) 2013: Claudia Russell - All Our Luck is Changing (Radio Rhythm) 2014: Eva De Roovere - Chanticleer (self-released) 2014: Wayne Haught - Fingers (self-released) 2015: Bob Hillman - Lost Soul (Audio & Video Labs)
As primary artist/song contributor 1989: Fast Folk Musical Magazine: Los Angeles (Fast Folk Musical Magazine) - track 13, "Punch & Socko" 1994: various artists - Tulare Dust : A Songwriter's Tribute to Merle Haggard (HighTone) - track 3, "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today" 2001: various artists - Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt (Vanguard) - track 6, "Monday Morning Blues" (with Dave Alvin) 2004: various artists - Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo (Or Music) - track 1–15, "The End" 2009: various artists - Man of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc) - track 5, "Six Nights A Week" 2010: various artists - Riding The Range: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt (Righteous) - track 9, "If I Was Washington" (with Stan Ridgway) 2013: various artists - I Am the Resurrection: a Tribute to John Fahey (Vanguard) - track 12, "When The Catfish Is In Bloom" 2013: various artists - The Del Shannon Tribute: Songwriter, Vol. 1 ([Rockbeat) - track 8, "Keep Searchin'" (with Carla Olson and Kelley Ryan); track 10, "I Go to Pieces" (with Carla Olson and Drysdales) 2014: various artists - Link of Chain: A Songwriters' Tribute to Chris Smither (Signature Sounds) - track 14, "Caveman"
Also appears on 1985: The Beat Farmers - Tales of The New West (Rhino Records) - backing vocals on track 5, "California Kid" 1987: Leslie Phillips - The Turning (Myrrh) - vocals 1988: Bob Neuwirth - Back To The Front (Gold Castle) - vocals 1988: T Bone Burnett - The Talking Animals (Columbia) - vocals 1988: Tonio K. - Notes From The Lost Civilization (A&M / What?) - vocals 1990: John Wesley Harding - Here Comes The Groom (Sire) - guitar, vocals on track 13, "Things Snowball" 1992: Marvin - The Mandolin Man (Regional) - harmonica on track 11, "My Ultimate Home" 1995: The Dark Bob - An Ever Ominous Dream (MITB) - vocals on track 6, "He Knows What I Need" 1997: Tonio K. - Ole (Gadfly) - vocals 2004: The Crickets - The Crickets & Their Buddies (Sovereign Artists) - harmonica on track 3, '"Not Fade Away" 2005: various artists - Walk the Line (soundtrack) (Wind-up) - acoustic guitar, harmonica 2007: Cindy Lee Berryhill - Beloved Stranger (Populuxe) - guitar, vocal 2007: Bert Deivert - Takin' Sam's Advice (Gravitation) - guitar, vocal on the track Broke and Hungry 2008: David Mansfield - The Guitar (Soundtrack) (Lakeshore) - guitar, vocal 2013: Carla Olson - Have Harmony, Will Travel (Busted Flat) - guitar (acoustic, electric), vocals
References
External links
Peter Case on ArtistDirect