Neko's debut solo album from 1997 available again on CD. 'The Virginian' drifts between country crying-towel balladry, spitfire rockabilly dirt-fights, and big-as-all-outdoors, bummer-pop grandeur. Neko sings with a breezy, buoyancy on covers of Ernest Tubb ('Thanks A Lot'), Queen ('Misfire'), the Everly Brothers (the infectious 'Bowling Green') and originals penned by a stable of pals known as The Boyfriends. To get the obligatory name-checking out of the way, her Boyfriends include members of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Smugglers, Zumpano, New Pornographers The Softies, and mucho more.
