Product Description

Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. The album comes in two versions: deluxe silver-foil gatefold cover (LP and CD) with bonus disc of extra tracks and regular jewelcase version (CD only). Backed by Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi). Guest appearances: Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan), Larry McDonald (Toots & The Maytals, Taj Mahal), Teenie Hodges (Al Green, Memphis Rhythm Band), and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham).

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. New York
2. Ramblin' (Wo)man
3. Metal Heart
4. Silver Stallion
5. Aretha, Sing One For Me
6. Lost Someone
7. Lord, Help The Poor & Needy
8. I Believe In You
9. Song To Bobby
10. Don't Explain
11. Woman Left Lonely
12. Blue

Disc 2:

1. I Feel
2. Naked, If I Want To
3. Breathless
4. Angelitos Negros
5. She's Got You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2154 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-22
• Number of discs: 2

Review
"She inhabits other people's songs with a fierce conviction that's sometimes startling" --Mojo

Customer Reviews

Don't Hesitate..Buy This Album Now!
God this woman can sing...she has one of the most beautiful voices in music today and unlike some other singers (Feist, Jenny Lewis) she actually has the ability to project real pain, sorrow, hope, emotion through her voice.
Chan Marshall is not a blues singer but boy can she sing the blues.

Even though this is an album primarily of covers it feels like a Cat Power album though and through.

Rambling Woman, Silver Stallion and Blue are all stone cold classic covers. They all sound completely different in style and mood but are all memorable.

I listen to this album every couple of days because it puts me in a good space.

I have to say a word about the band that she uses on this album. They do a great job and create some spooky , tripped out sounding southern rock/country/soul music that never overpowers her singing but enhances it.

Count me in the camp of people who prefer Cat Power's new sound.

I love her old stripped down stuff but its gets old. With her new sound, she has proven that she is too talented to be restricted to one style.

Great album. Buy it.

Cat Power is Cat Power!
I am a big fan of Cat Power and she can do no wrong in my eyes. Loved her rendition of these covers but her most amazing music is in her own original music.A new rising talent whose music is reminiscent of the original Cat Power stuff is Arrica Rose whose new album La La Lost blows me away. Check it out on her My Space page or website...to hear music.

Cat Power - Jukebox
Jukebox (2008, Matador) Cat Power's eighth studio album. ****

Chan Marshall has always been an enigma in the music community. Her raspy, deep voice, her strange performance at concerts, etc. Either way, she's had her fair share of brilliant moments and miserable misses, but thankfully Jukebox is a hit.

This is not the first time Marshall has done a covers album. In fact, she was brave enough to tackle "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, a song successfully covered by only one band before her (Devo, in case you're wondering). On Jukebox, Marshall again displays her eclectic taste in music, tearing each song down and giving it a new structure, a new sound, and most importantly, a new view. She opens by covering Frank Sinatra's "New York," with a slow drum easing the song off. It's a brooding affair, certainly Chan's style and a complete opposite of the uplifting version we know from Frank too well. It isn't a bad cover, rather, it's just strange, almost unrecognizeable. It begs the question of why she even bothered to cover it when she could have written her own lyrics. Only a few tracks make you ask that question, as many of these are excellently done, most notably George Jackson's "Aretha, Sing One For Me." The soft keyboards and Hammond organ accompany Marshall's voice, with a soft bouncy and soulful yet eloquent keyboard line.

The same style is applied to James Brown's "Lost Someone," a very risky choice. This cut is more mellow than "Aretha," but Marshall's strutting vocals make it a sincere moment. She also manages to work in a cleverly executed Dylan cut, "I Believe in You." The tempo is slowed and adds an echoing guitar riff. These and all the songs are fairly minimalist, and all are turned into flok, blues, or jazz-leaning renderings. It isn't a perfect way to do things, in fact, cuts like "Metal Heart" could have been left in the studio. I'd be interested to see if Marshall took any clues from Vanilla Fudge's self-titled debut, an album that consisted solely of covers, all brilliantly done. If she hasn't, she might want to brush up on them to see masters in action (Aretha, Sing One For Me, Lost Someone, I Believe in You, Song For Bobby).

-Stephen
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