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Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His discography consists of 14 studio albums, 3 compilations, 4 EPs, 11 singles, and 1 tribute album.

• 1986: Peter Case (Geffen)
• 1989: The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (Geffen)
• 1992: Six-Pack of Love (Geffen)
• 1993: Sings Like Hell (Vanguard)^[1]
• 1995: Torn Again (Vanguard)
• 1998: Full Service No Waiting (Vanguard)
• 2000: Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard)
• 2001: Thank You St. Jude (Travellin’ Light) with David Perales
• 2002: Beeline (Vanguard)
• 2007: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (Yep Roc)
• 2010: Wig! (Yep Roc)
• 2015: HWY 62 (Omnivore)
• 2017: On the Way Downtown (Omnivore)
• 2016: Lost Songs and Outside Favorites (Travelin’ Light)
• 2021: The Midnight Broadcast (Bandaloop Music)
• 2023: Doctor Moan (Sunset Blvd Records)

• 2004: Who’s Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile? (Vanguard)
• 2007: Vanguard Visionaries: Peter Case (Vanguard)
• 2011: The Case Files (Alive) – outtakes compilation

• 1986: Steel Strings (Geffen) 12″ UK EP – “Steel Strings” / “Old Blue Car” / “Steel Strings (acoustic version)” / “Small Town Spree”
• 1986: Selections from Peter Case (Geffen) 12″ promo EP – “Echo Wars” / “Steel Strings” / “Old Blue Car” / “I Shook His Hand (acoustic version) / “Steel Strings (acoustic version)
• 1992: Selections From Six-Pack of Love (Geffen) CD promo EP – “Dream About You” / “Deja Blues” / “Why?”
• 2007: BeeSides (Vanguard) CD promo EP – “Beyond The Blues” / “One More Mile” / “Watch Out (Previously Unreleased)” / “Gone (alternative version)”

• 1986: “Steel Strings” / “Small Town Spree” (Geffen)
• 1986: “Old Blue Car” (Geffen) promo 12″
• 1989: “Put Down the Gun” (Geffen) promo CD
• 1989: “Put Down The Gun” / “Entella Hotel” (Geffen)
• 1989: “Travellin’ Light” / “Put Down the Gun” (Geffen)
• 1992: “Dream About You” / “Wonderful 99” (Geffen)
• 1997: “Let Me Fall (radio edit)” (Vanguard) promo
• 1998: “Until the Next Time (radio edit)” (Vanguard) promo
• 2000: “Coulda Shoulda Woulda” (Vanguard) promo
• 2002: “Something’s Coming (Edit)” (Vanguard) promo
• 2010: Live At Euclid (Euclid Records) – “Dig What You’re Puttin’ Down” / “Nadine“

• 2006: various artists – A Case for Case (Hungry For Music)^[2]

• 1976: The Nerves EP (Bomp!)
• 2008: One Way Ticket (Alive) – reissue of 1976 EP plus demos and previously unreleased tracks^[3]
• 2009: Live! At The Pirate’s Cove (Alive)

• 2009: Walking out on Love (The Lost Sessions) (Bomp! / Alive)^[4]

• 1981: The Plimsouls (Planet)
• 1983: Everywhere at Once (Geffen)
• 1989: One Night in America (Fan Club / Oglio)
• 1998: Kool Trash (Fuel 2000 / Shaky City)
• 2010: Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (Alive)
• 2012: Beach Town Confidential (Live at the Golden Bear 1983)
• 2012: Live At The Palace, Hollywood, California 11/16/85 (Kool Kat Muzik)

• 1979: The Beat – The Beat (Columbia) – track 8, “U. S. A.”
• 1979: Nana Mouskouri – Roses & Sunshine (Verve) – track 6, “Nickels and Dimes”
• 1981: The Go-Go’s – Beauty and The Beat (I.R.S.) – track 3, “Tonite”
• 1983: Action Now – All Your Dreams (Lolita) – track 4, “This One Chance” (co-written with Paula Pierce)
• 1987: Marshall Crenshaw – Mary Jean & 9 Others (Warner Bros.) – track 8, “Steel Strings”
• 1987: The Nomads – Hardware (Anigo) – track 1, “Call Off Your Dogs” (co-written with Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Steven Soles)
• 1987: The Williams Brothers – Two Stories (Warner Bros.) – track 2, “Inch By Inch” (co-written with Charlotte Caffey)

• 1990: John Wesley Harding – Here Comes The Groom (Sire) – track 13, “Things Snowball” (co-written with John Wesley Harding)
• 1991: Four Men and a Dog – Barking Mad (CBM) – track 1, “Hidden Love”
• 1992: Los Valendas – Turtle Friend Extended (Munster) – track 13, “I Want What You Got”
• 1992: Slaters – The Big Black Bug Bled Black Blood…….. (Zero Hour) – track 11, “Oldest Story In The World”
• 1993: Barrence Whitfield with Tom Russell – Hillbilly Voodoo (East Side Digital) – track 7, “Ice Water” (co-written with Lightnin’ Hopkins)
• 1994: Goo Goo Dolls – Hold Me Up (Metal Blade / Priority) – track 13, “A Million Miles Away” (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes)

• 1995: Psychotic Youth – Bamboozle! (Wolverine) – track 9, “How Long Will It Take”
• 1996: Bob Neuwirth – Look Up (Watermelon) – track 5, “Beyond The Blues” (co-written with Tom Russell and Bob Neuwirth); track 8, “Everybody’s Got A Job To Do” and track 10, “Traveling Light” (both songs co-written with Bob Neuwirth)
• 1997: John Prine – Live on Tour (Oh Boy) – track 5, “Space Monkey” (co-written with John Prine)
• 1998: Robert Earl Keen – Walking Distance (Arista) – track 2, “Travelin’ Light” (co-written with Bob Neuwirth)
• 2001: Kevin Bowe – Love Songs & Murder Ballads (Okemah Prophets) – track 9, “Coulda Shoulda Woulda” – (co-written with Duane Jarvis and Kevin Bowe)
• 2003: Duane Jarvis – Delicious (Slewfoot) – track 1, “Coulda Shoulda Woulda” (co-written with Duane Jarvis and Kevin Bowe)

• 2005: James McMurtry – Childish Things (Compadre) – track 9, “The Old Part of Town”
• 2006: Chris Smither – Leave The Light On (Signature Sounds) – track 6, “Cold Trail Blues”
• 2007: Ingram Hill – Cold in California (Hollywood) – track 4, “A Million Miles Away” (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes)
• 2010: Neverever – Angelic Swells (Slumberland) – track 4, “Now” (co-written with Chris Fradkin and Joey Alkes)
• 2010: Robert Randolph and the Family Band – We Walk This Road (Warner Bros.) – track 7, “I Still Belong to Jesus”; track 14, “Dry Bones” and track 16, “I’m Not Listening” (both songs co-written with Robert Randolph, T Bone Burnett, and Tonio K.)
• 2011: Mark Winsick – Turnin’ Wheel (self-released) – track 7, “Rise and Shine” (co-written with Victoria Williams)
• 2015: Dogs – Shout ! (Epic) – track 2, “One Way Ticket”

• 1987: The Balancing Act – New Campfire Songs (I.R.S.)
• 1990: Flophouse – Flophouse (Heyday)
• 2005: Plastic Letters – Don’t Tell Your Boyfriend (Screaming Apple)
• 2011: Dead Rock West – Bright Morning Stars (Audio & Video Labs)
• 2013: Claudia Russell – All Our Luck is Changing (Radio Rhythm)
• 2014: Eva De Roovere – Chanticleer (self-released)
• 2014: Wayne Haught – Fingers (self-released)
• 2015: Bob Hillman – Lost Soul (Audio & Video Labs)

• 1989: Fast Folk Musical Magazine: Los Angeles (Fast Folk Musical Magazine) – track 13, “Punch & Socko”
• 1994: various artists – Tulare Dust : A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard (HighTone) – track 3, “A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today“
• 2001: various artists – Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt (Vanguard) – track 6, “Monday Morning Blues” (with Dave Alvin)
• 2004: various artists – Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo (Or Music) – track 1–15, “The End”
• 2009: various artists – Man of Somebody’s Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc) – track 5, “Six Nights A Week”
• 2010: various artists – Riding The Range: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt (Righteous) – track 9, “If I Was Washington” (with Stan Ridgway)
• 2013: various artists – I Am the Resurrection: a Tribute to John Fahey (Vanguard) – track 12, “When The Catfish Is In Bloom”
• 2013: various artists – The Del Shannon Tribute: Songwriter, Vol. 1 ([Rockbeat) – track 8, “Keep Searchin'” (with Carla Olson and Kelley Ryan); track 10, “I Go to Pieces” (with Carla Olson and Drysdales)
• 2014: various artists – Link of Chain: A Songwriters’ Tribute to Chris Smither (Signature Sounds) – track 14, “Caveman”

• 1985: The Beat Farmers – Tales of The New West (Rhino Records) – backing vocals on track 5, “California Kid”
• 1987: Leslie Phillips – The Turning (Myrrh) – vocals
• 1988: Bob Neuwirth – Back To The Front (Gold Castle) – vocals
• 1988: T Bone Burnett – The Talking Animals (Columbia) – vocals
• 1988: Tonio K. – Notes From The Lost Civilization (A&M / What?) – vocals
• 1990: John Wesley Harding – Here Comes The Groom (Sire) – guitar, vocals on track 13, “Things Snowball”
• 1992: Marvin – The Mandolin Man (Regional) – harmonica on track 11, “My Ultimate Home”
• 1995: The Dark Bob – An Ever Ominous Dream (MITB) – vocals on track 6, “He Knows What I Need”
• 1997: Tonio K. – Ole (Gadfly) – vocals
• 2004: The Crickets – The Crickets & Their Buddies (Sovereign Artists) – harmonica on track 3, ‘”Not Fade Away“
• 2005: various artists – Walk the Line (soundtrack) (Wind-up) – acoustic guitar, harmonica
• 2007: Cindy Lee Berryhill – Beloved Stranger (Populuxe) – guitar, vocal
• 2007: Bert Deivert – Takin’ Sam’s Advice (Gravitation) – guitar, vocal on the track Broke and Hungry
• 2008: David Mansfield – The Guitar (Soundtrack) (Lakeshore) – guitar, vocal
• 2013: Carla Olson – Have Harmony, Will Travel (Busted Flat) – guitar (acoustic, electric), vocals

• Official website
• Peter Case at AllMusic
• Peter Case discography at Discogs
• Peter Case on ArtistDirect