Peter Case-The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (1989)

 

Artist: Peter Case

Title: The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar

Label: Geffen

Format: LP

Cat #: GHS 24238

Year of Release: 1989

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1989 

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ gold stamp promo with original inner sleeve

Sell Date: 8/11/25

Sell Price: $24.99

Discogs Last Sold: 6/24/25 NM/NM $19.99

Low: $2.91 2/21/24 VG+/VG

Median: $11.31

Average: $13.02

High: $26.00 1/29/24 NM/NM

Current low price: $4.65 VG+/VG+ cut in right hand corner

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20

Have/Want: 784/67

Where: Sainpoint, ID

Time it took to sell: 2 weeks

Where and When Bought: Whatnot bundle auction

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+

Sad To See It Go: No

I've been beefing up my vinyl inventory of late getting auction bundles since my sales have slowed down a little.  I got this in a bundle as a bit of an afterthought but it went for $25 bucks, which is probably more than the total for the 10 or 15 albums I bought it with.  Most things sit a while, so there you go, you win every once in a while flipping records on the low end.

Peter Case has forever been one of those "for further review" artists in the back of my head.  I barely even associate him with the Plimsouls. "A Million Miles Away" was my mid-80's jam to the point I went to see them about 10 years ago.   That version was unexpectedly led by guitarist Eddie Muñoz and Case wasn't in it.  This particular album, Case's second solo release I was oblivious to until I got this copy.  The first one I remember seeing all the time and I bought a copy of Peter Case Sings Like Hell from 1993 on conversational recommendation.  I don't think it got more than one play.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar.  I've put in a few listens today and each time the same few things stood out.  Probably the best song on the album is "This Town's A Riot."  I say this because Case employs a Rolling Thunder Dylan-style wailing vocal to kind of a mundane sounding lyric to sound great and make a great song.  Plus maybe it nicks Neil Young for a line suggesting to go downtown.  Darling, not baby--she's all grown up!   I guess that means it is a great lyric after all. 

The other one that kept jumping out was 'Entella Hotel" where up Broadway the girls all have names like Ella, Estelle and Nicole.  Now that's a great lyric that jumps out in a song that I can't quite remember otherwise.  The other standout was "Put Down The Gun."  A song so deceptively bad it's the third best one on the album.  The rest is well-played, well-sung Americana before they called it Americana without a bunch of 80's sounding crap on it in 1989.

I'm glad I heard this.