"Casey Neill’s latest record, Goodbye to the Rank and File, is just as much audio book as it is album, teeming with rich lyrics that paint the glory and gutter of a wanderer’s struggle. Backed by talented Rats like Jenny Conlee (the Decemberists, Black Prairie) and Chet Lyster (Lucinda Williams Band), Neill bellows pack the punch of white-capped seas, soaking the band’s big sky, prairie wind sound with a haunting graveness. It just may be Portland’s strongest brand of unfettered, contemporary roots rock."
- Mark Stock, WILLAMETTE WEEK
BIO Casey Neill & the Norway Rats are a Portland, Oregon based band who play music informed by post punk ethos, haunting Americana, bits of Scottish tunefulness, and unhinged rock energy. The band are a crack gang of Portland's finest musos performing Casey's original songs and the occasional Husker Du cover. The Norway Rats feature Jenny Conlee on accordion and keys, Ezra Holbrook on drums, Chet Lyster on guitars, and Jesse Emerson on bass. Casey cut his teeth in the underground music community of the Pacific Northwest and has toured throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Britain. He's played stages such as New York's Town Hall, San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, and Glasgows Celtic Connections Festival. Many respectable (and not so respectable) people have said nice things about the music.
'Goodbye to the Rank and File' is the spanking new Casey Neill & the Norway Rats record. Look for them on tour all over the US in 2010 and 2011.
