
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 [...]