The Virginian (album)

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Guest musicians on the album include Carl Newman,<ref name= "forever">Template:Cite news</ref> Carolyn Mark, Rose Melberg, Matt Murphy, Brian Connelly,<ref name="Fontana" /> and Darryl Neudorf. Case and Newman would later form the New Pornographers with other Vancouver musicians.<ref name= "forever" />

The song "Karoline" was a re-recording of the song "Rebecca Lash" which Case had written and recorded with her previous band Maow. "Misfire" is a cover of a Queen song, originally recorded on the band's Sheer Heart Attack album. "Duchess" was originally recorded by its writer Scott Walker on the 1969 album Scott 4.

A video for "Timber" was shot; however, CMT did not air it, calling it too dark. Case herself was unhappy with the video and did not want it aired.

Critical reception

Template:Music ratings The Globe and Mail wrote that Case "comes across like a latter-day Brenda Lee, warbling about bluegrass and honky-tonks as if she'd been raised on them, filling her songs with inventive word play, heartbreak and humour while refugees from bands such as Sloan, Copyright and Zumpano bang out their best impersonation of 1950s Nashville session guys."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Track listing

1. "Timber" – 2:45 (Neko Case, Brad Lambert, Eric Napier)
2. "Bowling Green" – 2:16 (Terry Slater, Jacqueline Ertel)
3. "Jettison" – 3:13 (Case, Ford Pier)
4. "High on Cruel" – 2:02 (Case, David Carswell)
5. "Karoline" – 2:24 (Case, Carswell)
6. "Lonely Old Lies" – 3:34 (Case, Lambert, Napier, Carl Newman)
7. "Honky Tonk Hiccups" – 2:22 (Matt Murphy)
8. "The Virginian" – 3:29 (Case, Lambert, Napier, Newman)
9. "Duchess" – 2:55 (Scott Engel)
10. "Thanks a Lot" – 2:35 (Eddie Miller, Don Sessions)
11. "Somebody Led Me Away" – 2:46 (Lola Jean Dillon)
12. "Misfire" – 2:10 (John Deacon)