Editing Neko Case (section)

===Seattle===
Case embraced country music on her 1997 album, ''[[The Virginian (album)|The Virginian]]''. The album contained original compositions as well as covers of songs by [[Ernest Tubb]], [[Loretta Lynn]] and the 1974 [[Queen (band)|Queen]] song "[[Misfire (song)|Misfire]]".<ref name="Peppiatt2004">{{cite book|author=Francesca Peppiatt|title=Country Music's Most WantedTM|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=huXRARoi8vcC&pg=PT190|date=19 February 2004|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61234-241-2|pages=190–}}</ref> When the album was released, critics compared Case to [[honky tonk|honky-tonk]] singers like Lynn and [[Patsy Cline]], and to [[rockabilly]] pioneer [[Wanda Jackson]], particularly in her vocal timbre.<ref>{{cite news|first=Grant|last=Britt|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-grant-britt-neko-case/130981137/|title=Neko Case performance is a chance to live in the moment|newspaper=News and Record (Greensboro, North Carolina)|date= January 18, 2018|page=13-Go Triad|access-date=August 31, 2023|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On February 22, 2000, Case released her second solo album, ''[[Furnace Room Lullaby]]''. The album introduced the "[[country noir]]" elements that have defined Case's subsequent solo career. That tone was evident even from the cover photo, featuring Case sprawled out corpse-like on a concrete floor. On the album itself, her vocal style moves away from outright honky-tonk but retains her twang, garnering comparisons to musicians such as Cline, Lynn, [[Hazel Dickens]], [[Tanya Tucker]], and [[Dolly Parton]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}} The title track was included on the soundtrack to [[Sam Raimi]]'s film ''[[The Gift (2000 film)|The Gift]]'',{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} and "Porchlight" was featured on the soundtrack to ''[[The Slaughter Rule]]''.

Case sometimes tours with Canadian singer and songwriter Carolyn Mark as [[the Corn Sisters]].<ref name=holliston>Tom Holliston, [http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/The-Corn-Sisters "The Corn Sisters"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301002442/http://music.cbc.ca/ |date=March 1, 2016 }}. [[CBC Music]]. Retrieved 10 April 2013.</ref> One of their performances, at Seattle's Hattie's Hat restaurant in [[Ballard, Seattle, Washington|Ballard]], was recorded and released as an album, ''[[The Other Women (The Corn Sisters album)|The Other Women]]'', on November 28, 2000.<ref name=holliston />