Casey Neill

Casey Neill is an American musician. He leads Portland, Oregon-based band Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, singing with a raspy vocal quality and playing electric and acoustic guitars. Neill's style, folk-punk, mixes influences from punk, Celtic and folk music, and has been compared to R.E.M. and The Pogues. The Norway Rats include Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists on keyboards and accordion, among other established Portland musicians Jesse Emerson, Little Sue, Hanz Araki and Ezra Holbrook of Dr Theopolis. After graduating from The Evergreen State College with an ethnomusicology education, Neill developed as an artist in the underground music community of the Pacific Northwest, releasing two early cassette releases and then his first CD,...