Blacklisted

Neko Case’s third full-length album. In a 2018 interview on the podcast Song Exploder, she describes this as the first time she realized she’s a producer:

I’m there for every single second of the making of the record. I think I’m just a control freak, and that’s, like, a very good trait to have if you’re gonna be a producer[. … Even] on my first record, when I wasn’t quote-unquote producing it, I still had a lot of opinions and wanted things turned up or down, and by my third record, my dear friend Darryl Neudorf, who I record with a lot—he’s kind of my recording mentor—he actually said “You know you’re producing, right?” […] I don’t know if I would have understood that, because I just was so ravenous to make something, the roles and the thoughts didn’t occur to me. It’s listening, having an opinion, chasing a sound, being curious about a sound. [… I]t took a long time. I don’t know if that’s a thing for women or people who don’t feel like they own themselves in a way. I’m not really sure. It definitely took a lot longer than it should’ve.