Power Up: Musician Neko Case
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Super-talented singer-songwriter Neko Case is not immune to self-doubt. In the years before becoming “an adult,” she tells us she had a complicated relationship with ambition.
“I wanted to be in a band and I wanted to play music, but I couldn’t have even told you that then,” Case said. “I wouldn’t have even thought that I was capable of that, even though I was completely obsessed and had been my whole life.”
Her work has gone on to receive a lot of critical acclaim over her 30-plus years of making music. Her newest album is called Hell-On. She stopped by WBEZ to tell us how she maintains her sanity while touring and how she’s not superstitious — even though she learned her house burned down on the same day she recorded the vocals for a song called “Bad Luck.”
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| 0:46.4 | From WBEZ Chicago, I am Greta Johnson, and this is Power Up, a project from Nerdette |
| 0:52.4 | podcast. In a fast and loud and busy world, sometimes it can feel exhausting, just trying to keep up. |
| 1:01.0 | So we're asking fascinating people how they handle life's hurdles. |
| 1:05.5 | How do they set themselves up for success, power up, and recharge their batteries? |
| 1:10.5 | Our guest this week is singer-songwriter Nico Case. |
| 1:14.3 | Her lyrics are so haunting and gorgeous, and her melodies are just like entrancing. |
| 1:20.9 | This whole thing is completely fantastic. |
| 1:23.1 | God is not a contract or a guy. |
| 1:29.2 | God is in a contract or a guide. God is an specified tide. |
| 1:35.3 | You cannot time its tables. |
| 1:38.4 | It sets no glass or gables. |
| 1:41.4 | God is a lusty tire fire. |
| 1:46.6 | Kind of eerie, very thought-provoking. |
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