Anytime Tomorrow - Neal Casal > Reviews > Americana

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With “Anytime Tomorrow”, Casal set out to make a more diverse rock album then the folkier material on his more recent releases. When asked about the direction of the new album, Casal says „The music I play is rock and roll. Sure, there are elements of country, pop, blues, folk, and other sophisticated musical forms surfacing in my music all the time. But when it gets right down to it, I still feel like the 14-year-old kid in my Stones T-shirt, battered Converse All-Stars, and Gibson Marauder about to step onstage at the middle school talent show. I guess I haven‘t progressed very much after all these years [laughs]. Really, though, I‘ve absorbed everything from bebop to death metal, and though some people may perceive me differently, I‘ll always consider myself a rocker. I accidentally found myself standing next to Patti Smith in a guitar store one day and I saw her staring lovingly at an old Les Paul Junior hanging on the wall. As I was walking away, I heard her whisper to herself, „Man, that‘s a cool guitar.“ It was so great to find out that I‘m not the only one who‘s never gotten over the wicked rush of seeing a guitar and hearing rock and roll for the first time.“