CD - Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit

1CD

"Last Missouri Exit", the debut album by Case Oats, is a remarkably assured record, the band - Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Jason Ashworth (bass), Scott Daniel (fiddle), and Nolan Chin (piano, organ) - gelling around Gomez Walker's voice and guitar.

"Last Missouri Exit" is a collection of sharply drawn character studies, Walker's background in creative writing expressing itself in wry observation and a disarmingly easy sense of the lyric, the profound and profane tumbling out of songs like "Bitter Root Lake" with the weight of a confessional poem and the ease of a conversation between friends.

Resonating from the messiest chambers of the heart, "Last Missouri Exit" is a bruised affair, the band swelling around Walker as she describes coming of age in terms of being loyal to desperately flawed people and eventually, with some distance from home, being true to herself.