Casey Neill

Portland, Oregon songwriter Casey Neill is an indie-folk artist with a sound that includes elements of power pop, Celtic, Americana, and punk. He tours solo and with his band, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats throughout the USA, Japan, and Europe. After releasing cassettes in the Northwest folk-punk underground, he signed to national roots label Appleseed and contributed to Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger along with Bruce Springsteen and others. His next albums as Casey Neill Trio entitled Skree and Portland West added elements of Americana and trad Celtic music. Relocating to NYC, he worked with famed Scots fiddler/producer Johnny Cunningham on new songs. They played Lower East Side haunts 11th Street Bar and Living Room with a small band before Johnny tragically passed in '03. Casey returned to Oregon at a loss as to what to do with the tracks. Some were included on a comp of his material with an activist bent entitled Memory Against Forgetting. Finally in '07, the sessions with Cunningham became the record Brooklyn Bridge. Back in Portland, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats formed with members of The Decemberists, eels, and Amelia. They released Goodbye to the Rank and File in 2010 and All You Pretty Vandals in '14. Casey Neill is also a member of The Minus 5 and sings and writes songs in Big Bridges. The latest Norway Rats record is the dreamy dystopian Subterrene that No Depression calls "a milestone in Neill and company’s trajectory thus far".