After disbanding the Los Angeles new wave/power pop group the Plimsouls, bespectacled, gruff-voiced frontman Peter Case launched a career as an important American singer/songwriter specializing in the flat-pick guitar style and semi-autobiographical stories of drifters delivered in a narrative style. Case has been writing and recording as a solo act for much longer than he was ever in the Plimsouls, or his first band, the seminal '70s punk band The Nerves. In fact, as a producer and solo act, the San Francisco-based musician has been nominated for a Grammy on three occasions - once for his 1986 self-titled debut solo album and more recently for his production work on a tribute album from Blues legend Mississippi John Hurt. Case will bring his dynamic Americana-inspired blend of blues, folk and rock to the intimate Morso wine bar in Gig Harbor.

PETER CASE, 8 p.m., Morso, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, $25, 253.530.3463