Neko Case & Thao Nguyen

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, two great musician interviews from the Bullseye archives. First up: Neko Case. It's hard to think of a singer/songwriter more beloved in the alt country / indie rock world Case inhabits. Her work - about half a dozen solo albums and a long list of collaborations with artists like New Pornographers and kd lang - has thrilled critics for decades now. She and Jesse talk about her transition from drummer to singer and guitarist, her move to a farm in Vermont, and more. Then, Thao Nguyen. Her band, Thao and the Get Down, Stay Down, have been making pop music with a bold, confessional bent for a while now. She and Jesse talk about artistic growth, nurturing relationships with estranged parents and her most recent record - 2016's A Man Alive. Both Thao and Neko are embarking on a big nationwide tour this Summer - find links to dates on the Bullseye page at MaximumFun.org!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be
0:16.5	a rock star? Center stage at some big venue singing a song you know the audience love?
0:22.1	Well my guest Nico Case described to me how that feels for her.
0:27.3	It's not like anything else you know and sometimes when your sound on stage is just right
0:32.7	you feel like what it would feel like if you were a fire hose and you could spray water
0:39.5	really hard for a really long period of time or you're like a fleshy wind sock just hanging
0:47.6	off of a microphone.
0:51.1	It's Bullseye.
0:58.3	Coming up I'll talk to Nico Case about the self-reliance that comes from losing your parents,
1:04.3	the importance of owning your own work and why she moved to a farm.
1:09.3	There's cows that come over to my house. It's pretty awesome. They move when they see me coming.
1:17.3	It makes me feel good. They're big brown eyes.
1:22.3	Ben Tao-wen. Her 2016 album is a great one. It's called A Man Alive and it explores the relationship
1:29.3	she has or more accurately doesn't have with her father. She's had to consider whether or
1:34.4	not she wants to reconnect with him while she still can.
1:37.4	And I hadn't really been thinking about my dad in that way and then I was just bawling
1:41.9	in this very cute restaurant. It was so embarrassing but you know that moment is so vivid to me
1:50.3	because I realized that this like fiery pit has informed everything that I've done and
1:56.8	not done in my entire life.
1:58.8	Plus I'll tell you why you should give another listen to Black Sabbath. It's all coming
2:03.3	up on Bullseye. Let's go.
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