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29.05.2023 - 15:29 / variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Oft-remembered for soundtracking “Valley Girl” with the classic cut “A Million Miles Away,” singer-songwriter Peter Case has a worldwide following, but veteran followers of the Los Angeles music scene may have spent the last 40 years or so trying to solve a puzzle about him. The riddle: When Case was a master of Beatlesque power-pop in his role as frontman of the Plimsouls, one of the great L.A. bands of the early ‘80s, was that the real him? Or is he an ageless acoustic-folkie who accidentally got swept up in rock’s new wave on the way to the hootenanny? Because, even with decades of hindsight, fans may still have a problem reconciling these two primary identities as being the same guy.
This is where documentaries like “Peter Case: A Million Miles Away” become valuable, taking on performers who’ve gone through reinventions without attraction elaborate media attention. In Case’s case, Parnes’ origin story helps establish that the singer really was to the folk-troubadour manner born, with his time as a putative rock star being more of a blip along the way, if a brilliant one. By the end, you’d be hard-pressed not to imagine Case was destined by no less a force than fate to be driving himself across the country from gig to gig with just an acoustic guitar for company, not negotiating major-label deals with David Geffen … even if the specter of “what if” still pops up in the rearview mirror.
Early scenes in Parnes’ film establish Case’s unhappy early family life in Hamburg, N.Y., and his eagerness to hit the road and go full-minstrel at the first possible moment. Lightning struck, in every conceivable sense, when Case happened upon a modest gig by Lightnin’ Hopkins
Carlos Santana is showing an impressive amount of forgiveness years after a horrible series of acts altered his life. The legendary guitarist is the focus o
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