{"title":"Case Oats","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0.0px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCase Oats \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Chicago outfit led by Casey Gomez Walker. The band consists of Gomez Walker (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Scott Daniel (fiddle), and Jason Ashworth (bass).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0.0px;\"\u003eEmerging from Chicago’s vaunted music community, Case Oats began life seven years ago when Gomez Walker, a writer and poet with some experience in bands, met Tweedy, a seasoned drummer who has performed with Jeff Tweedy, Waxahatchee, Mavis Staples, and Norah Jones. Not long after meeting, they started writing songs together, and in the time since their formation, Case Oats have homed in on a lived-in sound that perfectly complements Gomez Walker’s lyrics which are wry and confessional and full-bodied.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"case-oats-seventeen","title":"Case Oats - “Seventeen”","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0.0px;\"\u003eThe Merge debut single from Chicago’s Case Oats,“Seventeen” is a perfect “hello” from the band, brooding and playful and pitched to the left of their country-rock cradle, a poem expressed like a 1 a.m. torch song on a long-lost iPod that strikes a riveting balance between Iris DeMent and Kimya Dawson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:0.0px;\"\u003eCase Oats leader Casey Gomez Walker on “Seventeen”:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left:48.0px;\"\u003eWhen you’re seventeen years old, everything feels like the most important thing in the world, yourself included. And growing up in a small town [Eureka, Missouri], it’s even harder to see over the horizon. Every emotion feels big. This is a song about making it past that feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739423240503,"sku":"MRG866dig1","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/967ce527e74ee43a97254d78e2bb8f44ef6a83c9_d50c7aac5edfdd252d505e4243a6b2ec97f72c9a_medium_jpeg.jpg?v=1785382779"},{"product_id":"case-oats-last-missouri-exit","title":"Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut album by \u003cstrong\u003eCase Oats\u003c\/strong\u003e is a remarkably assured record, the band—Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Jason Ashworth (bass), Scott Daniel (fiddle), and Nolan Chin (piano, organ)—gelling around Casey Gomez Walker’s voice and guitar. \u003ci\u003eLast Missouri Exit\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of sharply drawn character studies, Gomez Walker’s background in creative writing expressing itself in wry observation and a disarmingly easy sense of the lyric, the profound and profane tumbling out of songs like “Bitter Root Lake” with the weight of a confessional poem and the ease of a conversation between friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP (Black)","offer_id":52739434283319,"sku":"MRG866LP","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52996580016439,"sku":"MRG866CD","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739434217783,"sku":"MRG866digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/c2562dcfb9d1aba3e4b3777f1f84bb3f36fa58e9_feae3e8520510747aa2e25da47c48b47ada5cef5_medium_jpg_c283e6fa-d290-45c6-81ed-eb3f1de0d08c.jpg?v=1789587709"},{"product_id":"case-oats-bottom-of-an-afternoon","title":"Case Oats - Bottom of an Afternoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust in time for their first-ever run of US headline dates, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-oats\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCase Oats\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e are back, sharing “\u003cstrong\u003eBottom of an Afternoon\u003c\/strong\u003e,\" written and performed by \u003cstrong\u003eCasey Gomez Walker\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSpencer Tweedy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Rather than stripping down their sound, this configuration of \u003cstrong\u003eCase Oats\u003c\/strong\u003e reveals new facets to their songwriting, centering Gomez Walker's voice in an entirely different soundscape than the one that buffeted her on the band's 2025 debut album\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/case-oats-last-missouri-exit\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLast Missouri Exit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. The instrumentation, including an aching trumpet solo by Gomez Walker, laps at the frayed edges of pained memory, haunting her already disarmingly beautiful, honest sense of the lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eCasey Gomez Walker, on “Bottom of an Afternoon”:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This song is a mantra for grief. As a kid I read Aesop’s Fables and was comforted by the idea that there’s always a moral to draw from an experience. As an adult, I find myself calling out asking “why?”, begging for visits from ghosts, holding on to any lesson I can find in the pages of books.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Bottom of an Afternoon\" is accompanied by a \u003ca href=\"youtube.com\/watch?v=QHVasXnBeWs\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\"\u003enew music video\u003c\/a\u003e, performed, filmed, and edited by Casey Gomez Walker and Spencer Tweedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739439264055,"sku":"MRG898digital","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/790cb21d1e6740b7c6c4dcd489c75698f998f629_61c0abc080788ca9c24de2dd58e52b3a8205e56d_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785382933"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/collections\/Case_Oats.jpg?v=1784914979","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/collections\/case-oats.oembed","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}