As Cat Power, Chan Marshall has elevated the art of the cover song and how an artist can make someone else’s material their own. Nearly all of her records feature at least one cover, and she’s devoted two LPs to […]
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“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” — Tennessee Williams In the midst of these more than troubling times, as even more walls are being erected to separate us, as […]
Just like you and me, songwriters walk through this world and pay attention to what they see, whether it’s in their own neighborhood or beaming in from across the globe on the news. And what they see is bound to […]
From the first few notes of the opening track on Cat Power’s new record, Wanderer, it will hit you, like a pang in your chest, that you’ve missed hearing Chan Marshall’s voice. Though she technically never went anywhere, Wanderer feels like […]
On Cat Power’s last album, The Greatest, she tried her hand at mid-century southern soul, surrounded by a backing band of back-in-the-day southern musicians. It was an album of originals that felt like a collection of old-timey covers: Cat Power […]
Chan Marshall opens her seventh Cat Power album with “The Greatest”, a tune awash in shimmery guitar, stately piano, soulful background vocals and swaying strings — the latter subtly nodding at “Moon River”. Coming from a such an indie-rock icon, […]
While nowhere as sprawling, haunted and ambitious as her 1998 breakthrough Moon Pix, Cat Power’s latest, The Covers Record, finds Chan Marshall bewitching listeners with a quiet, understated charm. Both elegant and raw, The Covers Record draws one in slowly, […]
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