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Cat Power News

Cat Power to release 'last covers' on new EP

Cat Power to release 'last covers' on new EP

Tracks are left over from 'Jukebox' sessions

Cat Power covers The Pogues on new EP

'Dark End Of The Street' is due out in December

  • Oct 3, 2008

Cat Power's shadow play ends first night of Oxegen

Chan Marshall mixes covers and originals for festival set

  • Jul 12, 2008

Cat Power announces ‘Jukebox’ tour of North America

She takes covers album on the road

  • Feb 19, 2008

Cat Power announces UK tour

Chan Marshall and co set to return for summer shows

  • Feb 19, 2008

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Cat Power YouTube Videos

Cat Power - Lived In Bars

Cat Power - Lived In Bars (03:54)

This is the video for Cat Power's song called "Lived In Bars" featuring members of the Memphis Rhythm Band. This song is on her relatively new album called 'The Greatest'.

Cat Power - The Greatest on Jools Holland

Cat Power - The Greatest on Jools Holland (03:29)

Cat Power performing The Greatest on Jools Holland

The Greatest Cat Power

The Greatest Cat Power (03:27)

This is a music video for "The Greatest" by Cat Power.

Cat Power - He War

Cat Power - He War (03:33)

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Wonderwall by Cat Power

Wonderwall by Cat Power (02:30)

i cant stop listening to this woman at the moment. the late great john peel played this Oasis song one evening. it leaves an impression. the photos are my own. taken in ireland in 2007. here is a link to my latest...

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Cat Power Reviews

Cat Power

Cat Power

Dark End Of The Street

Cat Power: Shepherds Bush Empire, London. Sunday, January 27

Chan Marshall finally comes swaggering out of her shell.

  • Feb 7, 2008

Cat Power

Jukebox

  • Jan 28, 2008

Cat Power

The Greatest

  • Feb 23, 2007

Cat Power/Her Space Holiday : San Francisco Great American Music Hall

Tonight feels like a particularly toe-curling 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'...

  • Dec 1, 2000

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Cat Power Biography

b. Charlyn Marie Marshall, 21 January 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Cat Power is the recording moniker of US singer-songwriter Charlyn Marshall. Her parents divorced soon after their daughter was born, resulting in Marshall spending an itinerant childhood in the American south, some of which time was spent with her father, a jobbing blues pianist. The newly-named Chan Marshall began performing with friends as Cat Power. She relocated to New York where she issued 1993's "Headlights" single on God Is My Co-Pilot's The Making Of Americans label. Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar's Tim Foljahn offered to record with her after they saw her opening for Liz Phair. The trio recorded two raw indie rock albums in one day in December 1994, which were subsequently released in October 1995 on Italian label Runt (Dear Sir) and March 1996 on Shelley's Smells Like Records (Myra Lee). The latter was named after Marshall's mother.

Marshall signed to Matador Records for What Would The Community Think, an album which managed to fashion a more suitable musical backing for her highly personal lyrics, and included the stand-out track "Nude As The News". After a brief "retirement" from the music industry, she returned in 1998 with Moon Pix, recorded in Australia with backing provided by Mick Turner and Jim White of the Dirty Three. Turner's subtle guitar work and White's restrained percussion were a marked improvement on the overbearing rock accompaniment that made Cat Power's early records difficult to love. Her vocals demonstrated a new maturity on stand-out tracks such as "Cross Bones Style", "Say" and "He Turns Down", and a superb reading of the traditional "Moonshiner". The follow-up was a sparse solo recording comprising radical reworkings of material such as the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", Nina Simone's "Wild Is The Wind", and Moby Grape's "Naked, If I Want To". The album also included a completely revamped version of her own "In This Hole", which originally appeared on What Would The Community Think.

Marshall's first album of original material in over five years, the eclectic but thematically tight You Are Free, was released in February 2003. The following year she was filmed by experimental filmmaker Mark Borthwick for a special CD/DVD package, the focus of which was a two-hour solo performance in the middle of a forest. Her next album, the misleadingly titled The Greatest, was recorded with some of the Ardent Studios players who worked with soul legend Al Green in the early 70s. Released at the start of 2006, the album was praised as Marshall's most accessible and polished collection of material since the mid-90s. Just when it appeared that she might make the crossover to mainstream acceptance, Marshall was forced to cancel her American tour because of health issues. She resumed playing live in April and also made several guest appearances during this period, singing on albums by Yoko Ono, Faithless and El-P.

In 2007, Marshall became the first female winner of the prestigious Shortlist Music Prize. During this year she also recorded several sessions with her new backing group, the Dirty Delta Blues Band.

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Cat Power Discography

Cat Power albums.

  • Dear Sir - 1995 (Runt)
  • Myra Lee - 1996 (Smells Like)
  • What Would The Community Think - 1996 (Matador)
  • Moon Pix - 1998 (Matador)
  • The Covers Record - 2000 (Matador)
  • You Are Free - 2003 (Matador)
  • The Greatest - 2006 (Matador)

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Cat Power Videos & DVD's

Cat Power video and DVD releases.

  • Speaking For Trees: A Film By Mark Borthwick - 2004 (Matador)

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