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Neko Case doesn't get around nearly as much as that band she's in sometimes, so when she does, it's worth taking note. Ms. Case has announced her first plans for the road in 2008, currently comprised of six dates up in the northeastern part of the U.S. It's not much at the moment, but we'll take it, especially since Neko's website promises new songs.

Eric Bachmann, of Crooked Fingers and ex-Archers of Loaf fame, will open all dates.

In other Neko news, she recently expressed a fondness for poetry in Poetry magazine, as appropriate a forum for such a thing as I can think of. And the entirety of her back catalog was recently reissued, which we hope cleared out all the cobwebs in anticipation of yet another fine solo disc.

Neko Case and Eric Bachmann:

01-25 Tarrytown, NY - Music Hall
01-26 Ithaca, NY - State Theater
01-27 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom
01-31 Albany, NY - The Egg
02-01 Providence, RI - Lupo's
02-02 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theater