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Post by busyboy on Aug 3, 2007 14:39:47 GMT -5
Cat Power Prepares Second Covers RecordWhen she's not filling her MySpace blog with exhortations to buy eco-friendly cars or using it to ask "whatchall feel about Obama + Hillary??," Shortlist Prize winner and Pitchfork Music Festival alumna Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) occasionally leaks little tidbits of info about her own new music. Or at least she did today, when she talked about Covers Record 2, the blockbuster sequel to her 2000 Covers Record. It's tentatively due in January on Matador. Marshall writes that she is mixing the record next week in Dallas with Stuart Sikes and that she has "24 covers to choose from," adding "with so many covers, tryin' to decide if I should release COVERS RECORD 2 VOL. 2 ???" This new covers album has been in the works at least since last fall, when it was mentioned in a New York Times story. And Cat Power certainly played a lot of covers at her Pitchfork Music Festival set. Cat Power has a small palmful of dates scheduled for the next few months, including two in Brazil. Her next show, with the Dirty Delta Blues ensemble she assembled, is in Dallas (coincidence?) on August 17. Dates: 08-17 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater (with Dirty Delta Blues) * 10-12 Fairburn, GA - Bouckaert Farm (The Echo Project) 10-25 São Paulo, Brazil - Auditório Ibirapuera (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) # 10-26 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Marina da Glória (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) $ * with Micah P. Hinson # with Antony and the Johnsons, Toni Platão $ with Feist
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Post by busyboy on Sept 28, 2007 11:17:04 GMT -5
Cat Power Goes Back Under 'Covers'Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Cat Power has settled on a Jan. 22 release date for "Covers II," her second Matador album of material popularized by other artists. The track list for the project has yet to be confirmed, but it will feature Chan Marshall backed by her Dirty Delta Blues band. "Covers II" follows 2000's "The Covers Album," which featured her interpretations of songs by the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Moby Grape and the Velvet Underground. The new album will be the follow-up to last year's "The Greatest," which won the 2007 Shortlist prize for creative achievement. Cat Power will hit the road with the Dirty Delta Blues Band beginning Oct. 14 in Norfolk, Va., and has shows on tap through Nov. 4 at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. She can also be heard covering Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile With Memphis Blues Again" on the soundtrack to "I'm Not There," due Oct. 30 via Columbia.
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Post by oscillations. on Sept 28, 2007 11:33:02 GMT -5
I bet she wishes she were Feist right now.
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Post by galvanize on Sept 28, 2007 11:34:38 GMT -5
I bet she wishes she were Feist right now. Or Imogen Heap!
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Post by busyboy on Sept 28, 2007 11:35:45 GMT -5
LOL, she's probably too wasted/out of it to notice anyway...
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Post by Mr. Yeah on Sept 28, 2007 12:06:06 GMT -5
Chan is such a wonderful singer, she's on a higher level than boring ass elevator-music like Feist. Hopefully her she includes her cover of Mary J Blige's "Deep Inside" on this album. There are SO MANY songs I'd love to hear her interpret...
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Post by busyboy on Oct 9, 2007 16:58:26 GMT -5
Cat Power's Next Covers Record: JukeboxLooks like Cat Power isn't going to have to choose between Covers Record 2 and Covers Record II for the title of the sequel-of-sorts to 2000's Covers Record. The album now has a completely different name: Jukebox. Chan Marshall's forthcoming, Dirty Delta Blues-assisted spin through the songs of others (well, mostly) will be released January 22 on Matador. In addition to takes on tunes by her favorite songwriters-- a tracklist has yet to be finalized-- Jukebox finds a little room for a pair of Chan originals, one old and one new. "Metal Heart" is an updated version of the Moon Pix standout, while recent live staple and Dylan homage "Song to Bobby" is new to the studio. Ms. Marshall's ongoing homage to Dusty Springfield continues to roll down those dusty trails on the road, as she prepares to set forth on a brief yet expansive fall tour this weekend in Georgia. Dates after the jump. Cat Power: 10-13 Fairburn, GA - Bouckaert Farm (The Echo Project) 10-14 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa 10-15 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club (DAM! Festival) 10-16 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 10-18 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon at Florida State University 10-19 Savannah, GA - Trustee's Theatre 10-20 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone 10-21 St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre 10-22 Miami, FL - Studio A 10-25 São Paulo, Brazil - Auditório Ibirapuera (TIM Festival) # 10-26 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Marina da Glória (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) $ 11-04 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest # with Antony and the Johnsons, Toni Platão $ with Feist
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Post by busyboy on Oct 17, 2007 3:07:03 GMT -5
Album cover: Track listing: 1. Theme From 'New York, New York' (Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli) 2. Metal Heart (Cat Power) 3. Ramblin' (Wo)man (Hank Williams) 4. Song To Bobby (new song) 5. Aretha, Sing One For Me (George Jackson) 6. Lost Someone (James Brown) 7. I Believe In You (Bob Dylan) 8. Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 9. Silver Stallion (Lee Clayton) 10. Dark End of the Street (James Carr) 11. Don't Explain (Billie Holiday) 12. Woman Left Lonely (Janis Joplin)
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Post by busyboy on Nov 20, 2007 8:10:06 GMT -5
She must have graduated to some upper financial class of artists, because "Song To Bobby" (from the new album) was released on iTunes, while the first song from The Greatest was given away for free on the Matador Records website in 2005.
Anyway, the song's nice.
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Post by busyboy on Nov 29, 2007 11:16:06 GMT -5
The album also comes in a deluxe edition, with a 5-track bonus disc:
1. I Feel (original by Hot Boys) 2. Naked, If I Want To (original by Moby Grape) 3. Breathless (original by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) 4. Angelitos Negros (original by Roberta Flack) 5. She's Got You (original by Patsy Cline)
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Nov 29, 2007 11:25:08 GMT -5
The album also comes in a deluxe edition, with a 5-track bonus disc: 1. I Feel (original by Hot Boys) 2. Naked, If I Want To (original by Moby Grape) 3. Breathless (original by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) 4. Angelitos Negros (original by Roberta Flack) 5. She's Got You (original by Patsy Cline) She should rename herself P**** Powah and release her cover of the Hot Boyz song "I Feel" to get that Urban Crossover SMASH!
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Post by Mr. Yeah on Nov 29, 2007 13:21:29 GMT -5
I know Chan is a huge Mary J. Blige fan so I was hoping she'd cover an MJB song... but anyway I'm looking forward to this.
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Post by K. on Nov 30, 2007 15:33:33 GMT -5
I wish that cover she did for that commercial ("I want to tell you...that I'm always thinking of you...") was included on this album. That was dumb of her to not actually record it, especially after what happened to fellow commercial songs "1,2,3,4" and "The Way I Am."
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Post by When I Ruled the World on Dec 1, 2007 0:19:05 GMT -5
I wish that cover she did for that commercial ("I want to tell you...that I'm always thinking of you...") was included on this album. That was dumb of her to not actually record it, especially after what happened to fellow commercial songs "1,2,3,4" and "The Way I Am." Definitely! How could she not include that? At least as a bonus track on the special edition!
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Post by busyboy on Dec 29, 2007 20:35:30 GMT -5
Leaked.
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Post by CammyCan on Dec 29, 2007 21:16:52 GMT -5
I wanted to like this album, but her covers are not working for me at all.
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Post by busyboy on Jan 21, 2008 5:05:37 GMT -5
Pitchfork review... Cat Power Jukebox [Matador; 2008] Rating: 5.7A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Cat Power's last covers record in 2000. In the intervening eight years, she has undergone a musical and characteristic evolution that's as surprising as it may have been necessary. Following her 2004 album You Are Free, which perfected her music's transformation to scrawled blues folk, she appeared on Handsome Boy Modeling School's otherwise vanilla White People. Her track, "I've Been Thinking", was a risky gambit that moved beyond the introverted waif persona of previous albums and revealed a new facet of Cat Power: credible soul singer. The point of "I've Been Thinking", which still holds up, is its sultriness; it's a striptease on a dare, complete with smoky ambience, a halting chorus, and an unbelievable spoken-word passage. Speed it up, add a flashier beat, and the song could be a Beyoncé hit. That track signaled a newly emboldened Marshall, as she began to refine her emotionally precarious live shows. For her next album, The Greatest, she would return to Memphis, the birthplace of her 1996 Matador debut What Would the Community Think, to fully embrace soul music, recording with members of Al Green's Hi Records band. Her trajectory is familiar, but the unspectacular Jukebox, a sort of sequel to The Covers Record, reaffirms what she's gained during this musical growth spurt, and what she's lost. Marshall has become a confident and charismatic vocalist, with subtle nuances and deft combinations of phrasing styles. She's no powerhouse like Aretha Franklin or Irma Thomas, but she sings well in a low, smoky croon, just a notch above conversational. I would have loved to see Marshall wander a few blocks south of Hi and end up at Stax, either recording with the MGs (how natural she would sound with Steve Cropper) or maybe with Isaac Hayes circa Hot Buttered Soul (who could do orchestral wonders with her songs). Instead, Marshall has moved a few decades forward, assembling a band of 1990s contemporaries for Jukebox. Jim White, the Dirty Three drummer who backed her on Moon Pix, and Judah Bauer, late of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, pound out dramatic accompaniment, but are never quite as smooth, as supple, or as inventive as her Greatest band. Marshall uses these covers albums not so much as a personal mixtape but as a state-of-the-career address. Like The Covers Record, a more self-critical work that traced her own influences through rock and folk, Jukebox exposes the roots of her newfound soulfulness. At a time when genres seem discouragingly fragmented and crossovers few and far between, Jukebox is admirably diverse, straddling country, blues, R&B, folk, and showtunes. Few other albums, at least in the indie realm, will skip so effortlessly from Hank Williams to James Brown, from Billie Holiday to Janis Joplin, from Jessie Mae Hemphill to the Highwaymen. Marshall sounds most comfortable with the country songs. Changing the pronouns in Williams' "Ramblin' (Wo)Man", she instills the song with a bluesy drama that's all grit and wanderlust. Similarly, she plays up the erotic twang in the Highwaymen's "Silver Stallion", stripping the song it to its barest acoustic accompaniment. I doubt Merle Haggard or Johnny Cash considered the sexual implications of a line like, "Just a touch of sadness in his fingers/ Thunder and lightning in his thighs"; they were talking about a horse, but Marshall gamely emphasizes the entendre. Marshall even covers herself again, as she did on The Covers Record: Her new band generates some bluster on the Jukebox reworking of "Metal Heart", originally a standout track on 1998's Moon Pix, but never exhibits the dynamic and control of the original. Aside from the supremely awkward reinterpretation of "New York New York", the soul covers are the least impressive here. Marshall's pleading doesn't sound credible or committed on James Brown's "Lost Someone" or George Jackson's "Aretha, Sing One for Me". She doesn't savor these songs the way she savored "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Sea of Love" on The Covers Record. The woman who got such an obvious kick out of doing her best Bob Dylan on "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" on the I'm Not There soundtrack is largely absent here, even on the sluggish cover of Bob's Christian-era "I Believe in You". It's worth noting that Jukebox's best moment comes not with a cover, but with a Cat Power original-- and fitting, too, that it's a mash note to Dylan. On the epistolary "Song for Bobby" she recounts in conversational lyrics her youthful infatuation with Dylan and how her professional love for him blurred into something like romantic affection. The song is funny, endearing, and even revealing. Still, a covers album like Jukebox should reveal new facets of a performer in its selection and interpretation of favorite songs. That's how (and why) The Covers Record worked. But eight years later, only "Song for Bobby" tells us anything new about Chan Marshall. The rest of Jukebox doesn't even say much about Cat Power. -Stephen M. Deusner, January 21, 2008
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Post by busyboy on Jan 23, 2008 8:17:19 GMT -5
Out now in the US!
Previously on the Billboard charts:
- The Covers Record peaked at #44 on Heatseekers in 2000
- You Are Free peaked at #105 on the Billboard 200 and at #2 on Independent albums in 2003
- The Greatest peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200 and topped Independent albums two years ago
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Jan 23, 2008 12:35:02 GMT -5
Solid album, for sure. Nice and mellow. I Like.
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Post by banet2001 on Jan 24, 2008 11:21:50 GMT -5
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Post by busyboy on Jan 30, 2008 10:08:03 GMT -5
Jukebox debuts at #12 with 29,000 copies sold in the US. In the UK, it debuts at #32 with 6,609 copies.
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Post by SAY IT RIGHT on Jan 30, 2008 17:11:27 GMT -5
I saw this in target but had no idea who she was...
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Feb 5, 2008 22:45:28 GMT -5
2/9 chart:
12 NEW CAT POWER JUKEBOX 29,355 999 676 30,135
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Feb 6, 2008 0:57:39 GMT -5
She is someone whose voice is very nice and who makes nice music and nice covers. Check her out, SIR!
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Post by kcchica on Feb 13, 2008 10:15:13 GMT -5
I purchased this album, and I have not stopped listening to it! I completely am entralled by it. Her voice is cool and the music is haunting! I am really bad at labeling music or describing its genre because I hate labeling music actually, music is music, screw labeling it....but I am trying to describe to someone this album......anyone want to help me out? What would anyone classify this as? Just like Portishead, I never know how where it falls! Thanks. This album, when I close my eyes, reminds me of something that would be in a David Lynch movie.....
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Post by gottoast on Feb 14, 2008 19:12:06 GMT -5
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Post by roentgenizdat on Feb 18, 2008 13:51:53 GMT -5
02/16: 12 48 CAT POWER JUKEBOX 15,479 29,355 -47.3% 45,614 02/23: 48 78 CAT POWER JUKEBOX 9,862 15,479 -36.3% 55,476
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 7, 2008 23:06:20 GMT -5
3/15/08 chart:
152 CAT POWER JUKEBOX 5,080 5,791 -12% 74,959
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Post by busyboy on Oct 3, 2008 13:20:10 GMT -5
Cat Power Covers More SongsThat Lincoln Cat Power commercial sure has been getting a lot of airplay. For those of you who like your Chan without a sale pitch, Dark End Of The Street, a double 10" Cat Power EP, is coming out in time for the holidays (don't worry vinyl virgins, it'll be available in digital form, too). The collection includes covers she put to tape during the Jukebox recording sessions. They're all covers. She loves to do covers. The tracklist and Boss album art: All are previously unreleased recordings except for "Fortunate Son" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long," but we have seen that shadowy "Dark End" clip. The jokesters at Matablog note: In keeping with prior practice / the Matablog style guide, we've listed the performers most responsible for popularizing the songs...don't worry San Francisco journalists, we'll make sure the proper composers are paid and credited! In case you forgot, they're referencing San Francisco Weekly's claims that Matador missed a credit for "Lord, Help The Poor And Needy," which on the album is listed as "Traditional, by Jessie Mae Hemphill, arranged by Chan Marshall, Public Domain." You can revisit the "controversy" here, if you'd like. Dark End Of The Street is out 12/9 via Matador. 01 "Auld Triangle" (The Pogues) 02 "Dark End Of The Street" (James Carr, Aretha Franklin) 03 "Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Sandy Denny / Fairport Convention) 04 "Fortunate Son" (Creedence Clearwater Revivial) 05 "I've Been Loving You Too Long" (To Stop Now) (Otis Redding) 06 "It Ain't Fair" (Aretha Franklin) stereogum.com/archives/album-art/cat-power-covers-more-songs_025211.html
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Post by busyboy on Nov 28, 2008 10:07:07 GMT -5
The new Dark End Of The Street EP leaked.
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