Here’s my list of thirty acts (actually 150) that I’ve shared a bill or stage with , or in couple of case, collaborated on songs. the only one i’m not sure of is suicide, paul collins said it happened, and I was pretty spaced out those nights at max’s kanas city, so???   1) john lee hooker 2) merle haggard 3) john prine 4) townes van zandt 5 bobby womack 6) willie dixon 7) de la soul 8) the ramones 9) tom petty & the heartbreakers 10) jonathan richman 11) los lobos 12) eric von schmidt 13) gordon lightfoot 14) dave van ronk 15) donovan 16) odetta 17) elizabeth cotton 18) ali farke toure 19) elvis costello & the attractions 20) tarafs de haidouk (romanian gypsy band) 21) ruben blades 22) spalding gray 23) gary us bonds 24) devo 25) pere ubu 26) the gap band 27) mavis staples 28) the replacements 29) ice-t 30) allen ginsberg 31) flamin groovies 32) fleshtones 33) mink de ville 34) nick lowe 35) husker du 36) the zeros 37) the alley cats 38) the last 39) the dils 40) joan jett & the black hearts 41) madness 42) blue oyster cult 43)

Really looking forward to this one! C’mon out Austin friends and fans,,,A HOUSE CONCERT they way the’re supposed to be! There are still some tickets so get them now: arhaven.org  

Getting ready to head down to the Bluebird Cafe I. Nashville, for opening night of the as yet un-named tour. (The complete list of dates are here at “gigs” on the site menu ticket links and all…) How about the Farewell To the First Post-Human Era Tour? Or the WHERE WE GOING PROJECT TOUR? How about a “Do The Right Thing tour? Anyhow I’m at my friends pad in. Nashville watching his little dog Ace, who is 16 years old, play energetically with a stuffed rabbit toy…good boy. We getting ready to drop, and I mean DROP, three individual releases on Bandcamp of demos and experimental projects etc… Tom Gulotta of Reelin’ In the Years is in charge of this, and it’s been pretty far out opening the vault of my old demos and finding songs and performances I’d somehow forgotten all about in the ongoing upheaval which has been my life as a singer over the years. It’s far out and info will be available here and on Bandcamp. Soon, not sure when but soon, the wheels are turning. Anyhow gotta go pick up Sid Griffin at his music row hotel… How about the “I’VE GOT THE END OF

Peter and Sid’s agent in the Uk Chris Metzler says: “If any of you witnessed their many European gigs together you will know exactly how much fun our American cousins are in for! So help spread the word and let folks know these two icons of rootsy Americana are on the way!” The dates: 4 Mar – The Bluebird Cafe Nashville, TN  https://www.ticketweb.com/event/pre-sale-an-evening-with-the-bluebird-cafe-tickets/14109753?REFID=clientsitewp 5 Mar – Whirling Tiger Louisville, KY   https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/34644063/sings-like-hell-with-peter-case-sid-griffin-louisville-whirling-tiger 6 Mar – FitzGerald’s Berwyn, IL https://www.ticketweb.com/…/sings-like-hell…/14068953... 7 Mar – Green Wood Coffee House Grass Lake, MI 8 Mar – Natalie’s – Grandview Columbus, OH https://www.showclix.com/…/peter-case-and-sid-griffin... 9 Mar – The 9th Ward Buffalo, NY 11 Mar – The Iridium NYC, NY https://www.ticketweb.com/…/sings-like-hell…/14072293... 12 Mar – Club Passim Cambridge, MA 13 Mar – TheDrake Amherst, MA https://tixr.com/e/124774 14 Mar – Club 603 Baltimore, MDY 15 Mar – World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA https://www.etix.com/…/sings-like-hellwith-peter-case... 16 Mar – Hank Dietle’s Tavern Rockville, MD https://www.hankdietles.net/.../sings-like-hell-with... 18 Mar – The Southern Cafe and Music Hall Charlottesville, VA https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100618A95661397... 19 Mar – Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC https://www.etix.com/…/sings-like-hell-with-peter-case... 20 Mar – The Evening Muse Charlotte, NC https://wl.seetickets.us/…/Sings-Like-Hell…/629891... 22 Mar – Eddie’s Attic Decatur, GA https://link.dice.fm/a8f48bd3e496 Full tour and show details @ https://www.sidgriffin.com/tour-dates/ Peter Case Solo Shows:

After intense transatlantic negotiations we can finally proudly announce the March 2025 USA tour of Peter Case & Sid Griffin. If any of you witnessed their many European gigs together you will know exactly how much fun our American cousins are in for! So help spread the word and let folks know these two icons of rootsy Americana are on the way! The dates: 4 Mar – The Bluebird Cafe Nashville, TN 5 Mar – Whirling Tiger Louisville, KY : https://www.ticketweb.com/event/pre-sale-an-evening-with-the-bluebird-cafe-tickets/14109753?REFID=clientsitewp  5 Mar March 5- -Whirling Tiger Louisville: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/34644063/sings-like-hell-with-peter-case-sid-griffin-louisville-whirling-tiger 6 Mar – FitzGerald’s Berwyn, IL https://www.ticketweb.com/event/sings-like-hell-with-peter-fitzgeralds-nightclub-tickets/14068953?pl=fitz 7 Mar – Green Wood Coffee House Grass Lake, MI 8 Mar – Natalie’s – Grandview Columbus, OH https://www.showclix.com/tickets/peter-case-and-sid-griffin-vksylea 9 Mar – The 9th Ward Buffalo, NY 11 Mar – The Iridium NYC, NY https://www.ticketweb.com/event/sings-like-hell-with-peter-iridium-tickets/14072293?pl=iridium 12 Mar – Club Passim Cambridge, MA 13 Mar – TheDrake Amherst, MA https://tixr.com/e/124774 14 Mar – Club 603 Baltimore, MDY 15 Mar – World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/64219798/sings-like-hellwith-peter-case-sid-griffin-philadelphia-the-lounge-at-world-cafe-live 16 Mar – Hank Dietle’s Tavern Rockville, MD https://www.hankdietles.net/events/sings-like-hell-with-peter-case-and-sid-griffin 18 Mar – The Southern Cafe and Music Hall Charlottesville, VA https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100618A95661397?CAMEFROM=CFC_SOUTHERNCAFE_WEB_ART_SINGSLIKEHELL 19 Mar – Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/90972652/sings-like-hell-with-peter-case-sid-griffin-carrboro-cats-cradle-back-room 20 Mar – The Evening Muse Charlotte, NC https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Sings-Like-Hell-with-PETER-CASE-and-SID-GRIFFIN/629891?afflky=MaxxMusic 22 Mar

“The only war is the war against the imagination.” —Diane di Prima “Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager, stay eager. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”  –Susan Sontag —— “Every hundred feet the world changes.”   –Roberto Belano {photo below, backstage at McGonnigal’s Mucky Duck, in Houston, by David Ensmiger}       1) ” WHOSE KID IS THAT?” songs language must be at least that powerful. 2) development: something happens 3) experience of the concrete world —– “Negative Capability” ” I IS SOMEONE ELSE” –from the second verse of “long, good time” Sweet little flowers called snowdrops in the backyard with the fresh mint leaves A cherry tree with a rope to climb & robins nests under the eaves My band was playing in the basement driving folks out of their minds Mother called down from the top of the steps “Boys, play that nice song about suicide” -That’s a song about people in a place, and I’m trying to render it as vividly as I can. It can “live” in a song, and others can feel it and will bring

The next show is north of San Francisco, in one of my favorite clubs in the area, Rancho Nicasio, on November 8. www.petercase.com/gigs gets you to the ticket link. Hell of a week for a gig…but I played the day after Obama won in 2008, and that show was sold out. I played the day after the 2016 election in the Ozarks, and that show was sold out, too. After the 2000 election I was up in Spokane with my friend Dave Alvin.  I was just starting a long tour across the US and Canada and Dave was just returning from one and we crossed paths up there. Sold out show. On the other hand, the day after the second Bush election was a dud…up in Minneapolis at the Cedar Tavern. The audience seemed quite down that night but we made the best of it…anyhow…c’mon out, whatever happens, I guarantee a dynamic and moving night of music. Now I”ll pick up this winding tale of a journey. I hopes it’s not any sort of affectation of mine that drives me to tell all this. The point is, we’re all going somewhere, for better or worse, and maybe some of you

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tf2lWy8lVZ6HhRaaz2TBs?si=vyTqqMWlRoO3VNHhINRHfw&t=1142

Rancho Nicasio show rescheduled for February 2, 2025       I was focused on being a singer and guitarist, and learning to write. From a young age I had the ability to make up songs, maybe because I felt the rhythms of the words from nursery rhymes, limericks, folk songs we sang in school, hymns at church. I never really studied songwriting, I just listened and then songs came naturally— It turned out one of my ancestors was a prolific hymn writer in the nineteenth century, a man named Hosea Ballou. Maybe that had something to do with it? My mother was obsessed with Shakespeare in an around-the-house way–she’d memorized a hundred-some key lines as a youngster in the thirties… that had an effect–she’d quote him with a laugh during the course of the days—and she’s also the first one who brought a Dylan record into the house–Bringing It All Back Home–I must’ve been 11–and got into it in a big way–one of the great things about Dylan was the songs were long, and each was a huge example of the pictures, the patterns, the rhythms and rhymes, alliterations and jumps in perspective that reeled like a movie projected

Drawing by Frank Lee Drennen https://petercase.com/wp-content/uploads/06-Small-Town-Spree.mp3 [Small Town Sprree from my first Geffen album, Peter Case. I got to play a harp solo over strings arranged by Van Dyke Parks, one of my favorite moments] Peter Case, portrait during a break while recording tracks for Peter’s album “Flying Saucer Blues,” TMOP Studios, Van Nuys, California. 1 December 1999. I’ll be at Rancho Nicasio November 8, tickets at www.petercase.com/gigs. Rancho Nicasio is a great music club and I look forward to getting back there. I thought in the run up to the gig I’d discuss what goes into becoming a solo song performer and writer–from a musicians point of view…a lifetime of unraveling the mysteries of music. This is the second part of 4. To this day, I always carry a Hohner Marine Band harmonica in my shirt pocket, everywhere I go…it’s a lifelong habit I’ve had no reason to quit–harmonica fell in place for me–not in terms of virtuosity but as a way to orchestrate and express songs and emotion –and that I could do it all surprised me, too. Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, and Paul Butterfield were the inspirations. And for a while I liked Pigpen from the Dead