''Blacklisted'' is the third studio album by American musician Neko Case, released on August 20, 2002. ''Blacklisted'' marked a departure from the

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sounds of Case's first two solo albums(?). Guest musicians on the album include Howe Gelb, Kelly Hogan, Mary Margaret O'Hara,

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. As of 2009, sales in the United States have exceeded 113,000 copies, according to

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Accolades

Online music magazine '' Pitchfork'' placed ''Blacklisted'' at number 141 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Track listing

All songs written by Case, except where noted. # "Things That Scare Me" (Case, Tom Ray) – 2:30 # "Deep Red Bells" – 4:03 # "Outro with Bees" – 1:35 # "Lady Pilot" – 2:26 # "Tightly" – 2:16 # "Look for Me (I'll Be Around)" (

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, Guy Wood) – 3:21 # "Stinging Velvet" – 2:55 # "Pretty Girls" – 3:25 # "I Missed the Point" – 1:52 # "Blacklisted" – 2:22 # "I Wish I Was the Moon" – 3:34 # "Runnin' Out of Fools" (Richard Ahlert, Kay Rogers) – 3:05 # "Ghost Wiring" – 3:54 # "Outro with Bees (Reprise)" - 2:24

Personnel

Credits sourced from ''Blacklisted''s liner notes. * Neko Case - vocals , harmony vocals ; acoustic guitar, electric tenor guitar , tambourine , piano , acoustic tenor guitar , electric 6-string guitar & saw , electric guitar , drums & percussion ;

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

* Kelly Hogan - sexy background vocals * Mary Margaret O'Hara - backing & harmony vocals *

12-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

baritone guitar The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Gretsch, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP Guitars, PRS Guitars, Music Man, Danelectro, Schec ...

, electric & acoustic guitar *

- tenor guitar & pump organ , acoustic guitar , cello , bowed double bass , electric bass , electric guitar & acoustic guitar , vibraphone ,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, upright bass * Brian Connelly - baritone guitar * Jon Rauhouse -

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

, Hawaiian guitar * Howe Gelb - pump organ , piano , organ , Wurlitzer organ *

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- upright bass ; arrangement *

- drums

References

2002 albums Anti- (record label) albums Neko Case albums Bloodshot Records albums

External links

* {{Discogs release, type=album, 13422187