Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs

New supergroup Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs, who will release trio album "case/lang/veirs" in June 2016. (Jason Quigley)

(Jason Quigley)

Watch out, Dolly: there's a new trio in town.

Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs have teamed up for a new album together, "case/lang/veirs," a collection recorded in Portland with producer Tucker Martine.

The album is due June 17 on Anti- Records, with a national tour bringing the three to the Oregon Zoo on July 2.

With the new collaboration, the threesome may do for folk what Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt once did for country with a pair of "Trio" albums in the 1980s and '90s. Lead track "Atomic Number" arrived on Monday, with each singer taking lead lines and joining for powerful harmonies. Hear it below:

The project has been in the works for some time: lang and Case performed on Veirs' 2013 release "Warp and Weft," and lang spurred the supergroup collaboration with an email: "I think we should make a record together," she wrote, according to a press release.

"Laura and I both responded immediately. There was no question," Case added.

lang hasn't released a new album since 2011's "Sing It Loud," a release credited to the singer and her band the Siss Boom Bang. The Canadian-born musician moved to Portland shortly thereafter, landing in town in 2012.

"I always felt very comfortable in and excited by Portland, and I felt the pull over many years of visiting there," she told PQ Monthly that year. "It just came to be time, and an opportunity came up to move up there -- so I did!"

The new release was recorded in her and Veirs' homes, which explains the Vermont-based Case's mysterious Portland tweets in recent months.

Portland, you have turned into a price-gouging hustler with a desperate clenched mouth. — Neko Case (@NekoCase) July 11, 2015

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