Guided by the electric wire’s hum

So, alt-country chanteuse and Playboy’s hottest woman in indie rock, Neko Case, will be coming out with a live record on November 9 on Anti-Records. This is both good and better.

A Neko Case live album will most likely surpass the already phenomenal output of her solo albums on Mint and Bloodshot Records, not to mention her work with the New Pornographers. What really makes this release, entitled The Tigers Have Spoken, special is the fact that it is almost all new material. Only two songs are old ones. The rest of the eleven tracks are new material and covers of artists as diverse as Catherine Irwin and the Shangri-Las.

According to the full press release over at Anti-‘s page, the album was “recorded over 7 nights and at 3 different venues in Chicago and Toronto” and “finds Neko backed by a full band featuring the Sadies and steel guitar whiz Jon Rauhouse and special guests Kelly Hogan, Carolyn Mark, Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops, Paul Morstad and Brian Connelly.”

Damn. Mark your calendars.