Neal Casal just finished up his tenth solo record with noted producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Pernice Brothers, Gary Louris). While listeners will recognize Casal's strong yet understated vocals, his acoustic-driven melodies have been amplified by complex sonic layers, resulting in a new, expansive sound that is the culmination of this prolific songwriter's multifaceted catalog. Read more »
Neal Casal is a musician who you discover when you start digging into his career, has a Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-esque connection to other musicians. The fact is that Casal's personal mantra is to live a life of creativity, and he achieves this in spades through his own extensive solo career with 11 albums dating back to 1994, sideman work in countless recording sessions and stints in other bands including high-profile runs in Ryan Adams ' Cardinals and currently Chris Robinson's Brotherhood (which has an [...]
Neal Casal - Let It All Begin
Neal Casal is known for being a guitarist for Ryan Adams & The Cardinals AND The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. But he also makes his own music. His tenth album - Sweeten The Distance - comes out next month on Royal Potato Family. It has that Americana rootsy sound often found with the bands he has played with. As a songwriter, Neal doesn't break any new ground but puts a unique spin on the human condition. Get some Neal with your email below. Get it: Watch it:
6am Repeat is a recurring feature here at Folk Hive in which we stream the latest track that plays incessantly in the earbuds when we awake at that hour and imbibe massive amounts of coffee and cigarettes in preparation for the advancing day. Consider it your jam of the day — a sweet, sweet gift from me to you. I love you, dude. Yesterday we had a lesson about a man named named Neal Casal . This morning, I shall piggyback off myself and point you towards [...]
If you cannot tell me who Neal Casal is, we're probably not gonna be friends in real life. I'm going to start an internet dating site for awesome chicks and there will be criteria for dudes before we accept their profiles. The following questions will be asked: Do you have a sweet beard? Can you play an instrument of any type (we'll count kazoos, because we're nice like that)? Do you know who Neal Casal is? Answer no to any of that shit and we're sorry, but you're [...]
I've done a bunch of Neal Casal posts, which is weird since I don't really have the normal connection with Neal that most music fans do. See Neal is best known as Ryan Adam's guitarist for seven years. But my connection to him came probably fifteen years ago when I stumbled on his debut solo record Fade Away Diamond Time at Restless Records in Chicago. At the time Mathew Sweet was huge and Neal Casal was playing in a similar power pop style but with a little more of an easy going California [...]
Eigenlijk knap lullig voor Neal Casal: hij is bekender om zijn werk in The Cardinals, de begeleidingsband van Ryan Adams, dan als de singer/songwriter die hij ook - en misschien wel: vooral - is. Wellicht was hij het rustpunt, het...
Neal Casal - Sweeten the Distance
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While we wait for Ryan Adams' forthcoming Glyn Johns-produced solo LP , his next official set of previously unreleased material is set to arrive during next Saturday's Record Store Day (4/16) festivities. As previously reported , the double-7" vinyl EP, Class Mythology , features four Cardinology -era cuts recorded by Adams with the Cardinals. Now the full tracklist and further details on the bundle have arrived: Included with limited-edition vinyl copies are never-before-scene photos shot by Cardinals guitarist/singer Neal Casal, lyrics, and a poster honoring the band's late bassist, Chris "Spacewolf" Feinstein . Check out [...]
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Website This was my first time catching Neal Casal perform a solo headlining show in the UK. Previously I'd seen him perform with Ryan Adams in his band The Cardinals. Sometimes he took the opportunity to play a support slot, other times being limited to one or two songs in the main set. Looking at the decidedly younger mix of the audience on Saturday night compared to a usual Maze gig, it would appear that Neal certainly benefited from that liaison by exposing his [...]
As Music Remedy reports , former Jayhawks member Mark Olson will release his follow-up to 2007's Salvation Blues this summer via his new label, Rykodisc. While a new record from an alt-country giant is great news around here in and of itself, a few details in the press release particularly caught my eye. .. For Many Colored Kite , his first release since his 2008 collaboration with fellow founding Jayhawk Gary Louris, Olson tapped drummer Danny Frankel, singer Ingunn Ringvold (his girlfriend), and Neal Casal, photographer, solo artist and guitarist in Ryan [...]
Moments Frozen in Time Photographic History Unfolds Ryan Adams by Neal Casal giddy, Adams, is with Oasis below Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows - The photo book about to unleashed, reveals an unprecedented, intimate look at Ryan Adams and his band the Cardinals. It takes place through the evocative [...]
For the second year in a row the underrated San Francisco-based roots-rock band The Mother Hips will play host to an extremely intimate weekend festival at the Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, CA that they've dubbed the Family Hipnic. The two-day fest, which will only have 300 tickets for sale, will feature sets from the likes of Dawes, Jackie Greene, Parson Red Heads, Farmer Dave and will be headlined on both nights by The Hips . Tickets are currently on-sale now with a variety of lodging options available by calling the Fernwood Resort at 831 [...]
Neal Casal , the other half of Ryan Adams ' guitar onslaught, is also something of a photographer. As such, the man has taken it upon himself to document his time with The Cardinals, and release it in a book which dropped upon the consumer world yesterda y (cover above). While we have yet to get our hands on a copy, we have to say we're pretty excited to see some personal documentation of The Cards on tour. Given the lack of recent musical activity from the happily married Adams, we're hoping maybe it'll inspire [...]
Here are a couple stories burning a hole in our queue… The full posthumous Jimi Hendrix record Valleys of Neptune is streaming here (via Blabbermouth ). Our buddies at Speakers in Code interviewed surfer, photographer, and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals guitarist Neal Casal about his new photo book A View of Other Windows . Joanna Newsom spoke to the WSJ and Time about her new album, losing her divisive voice, and taking internet comments [...]
Weird day, indeed. John Frusciante pretty much won the "important music news" slot of the day by confirming that he's officially tired of writing songs about California. Meanwhile, other bits were flying, binary-style, throughout the [enter social network service here]osphere… Cardinals guitarist Neal Casal has a new book of photos from the studio and the road. An intro has been penned by his former frontman Ryan Adams and the afterword is by the Dead's Phil Lesh. Check out A View of Other Windows on Amazon here . I'm just [...]
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REMIX SUNDAYS- May 27th, 2012
