Why CAT POWER Is Not Happy With Happy Music
6 June 2023
No happy music for Cat.
(Image on top: cover of her ‘Greatest’ LP)
Cat Power
Soulful Sunday With ‘COVERS’ Album By CAT POWER
Tunes for the laziest day of the week
30 January 2022
Artist: CAT POWER (born Chan Marshall)
Who: American singer-songwriter
Active: Since 1992 – 10 studio albums
New album: COVERS
Release: 14 January 2022 – Order info here
Cat Power joins the long queue of artists recording and releasing
a covers album/EP/single. Since the coronavirus paralyzed normal
life, most of the musicians got a lot of free time and many of them
used it to interpret other artists’ songs.
These are Power‘s picks…
01 “Bad Religion” (Frank Ocean Cover)
02 “Unhate”
03 “Pa Pa Power” (Dead Man’s Bones Cover)
04 “A Pair of Brown Eyes” (The Pogues Cover)
05 “Against the Wind” (Bob Seger Cover)
06 “Endless Sea” (Iggy Pop Cover)
07 “These Days” (Jackson Browne Cover)
08 “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Kitty Wells Cover)
09 “I Had a Dream Joe” (Nick Cave Cover)
10 “Here Comes a Regular” (The Replacements Cover)
11 “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Billie Holiday Cover)
Stream COVERS here…
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CAT POWER: Website
CAT POWER Honors BILLIE HOLIDAY With Grace
16 December 2021
Artist: CAT POWER (born Chan Marshall)
Who: American singer-songwriter
Active: Since 1992 – 10 studio albums
New album: COVERS
Release: 14 Jan 2022 – Order info here
Tracklist
01 “Bad Religion” (Frank Ocean)
02 “Unhate”
03 “Pa Pa Power” (Dead Man’s Bones)
04 “A Pair of Brown Eyes” (The Pogues)
05 “Against the Wind” (Bob Seger)
06 “Endless Sea” (Iggy Pop)
07 “These Days” (Jackson Browne)
08 “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky
Tonk Angels” (Kitty Wells)
09 “I Had a Dream Joe” (Nick Cave)
10 “Here Comes a Regular” (The Replacements)
11 “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Billie Holiday)
Cat Power joins the long queue of artists recording and releasing
a covers album/EP/single. After sharing a Pogues and Frank Ocean
cover, we get her version of a heartfelt song by jazz/soul heroine
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
Power‘s version of I’ll Be Seeing You is graceful and sensitive.
Enjoy here…
The original…
CAT POWER: Website
CAT POWER (Also) Plans An Album Of ‘COVERS’
10 October 2021
Artist: CAT POWER (born Chan Marshall)
Who: American singer-songwriter
Active: Since 1992 – 10 studio albums
New album: COVERS
Release: 14 January 2022 – Order info here
Cat Power joins the long queue of artists recording and releasing
a covers album/EP/single. Since the coronavirus paralyzed normal
life, most of the musicians got a lot of free time and many of them
used it to interpreting other songs. It rained/rains covers.
Tracklist
01 “Bad Religion” (Frank Ocean Cover)
02 “Unhate”
03 “Pa Pa Power” (Dead Man’s Bones Cover)
04 “A Pair of Brown Eyes” (The Pogues Cover)
05 “Against the Wind” (Bob Seger Cover)
06 “Endless Sea” (Iggy Pop Cover)
07 “These Days” (Jackson Browne Cover)
08 “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Kitty Wells Cover)
09 “I Had a Dream Joe” (Nick Cave Cover)
10 “Here Comes a Regular” (The Replacements Cover)
11 “I’ll Be Seeing You” (Billie Holiday Cover)
First two tasters…
– A PAIR OF BROWN EYES –
(Original: The Pogues)
– BAD RELIGION –
(Original: Frank Ocean Performed live
on an American TV show)
CAT POWER: Website
Coming Soon… DAVE GAHAN AND THE SOULSAVERS With Covers Album
8 October 2021
Band: DAVE GAHAN AND THE SOULSAVERS
Who: Side project of Depeche Mode’s frontman
that produced 2 studio albums so far.
New Album: IMPOSTER – covers LP
Release: 12th November 2021
Gahan: “When I listen to other people’s voices and songs, more importantly,
the way they sing them and interpret the words—I feel at home. I identify with it.
It comforts me more than anything else. There’s not one performer on the record
who I haven’t been moved by. I know we made something special, and I hope other
people feel that and it takes them on a little kind of trip – especially people who
love music and have for years.””
Trailer for the album…
Tracklist
01 The Dark End of the Street (Chips Moman and Dan Penn)
02 Strange Religion (Mark Lanegan)
03 Lilac Wine (James Shelton)
04 I Held My Baby Last Night (Jules Bihari and Elmore James)
05 A Man Needs a Maid (Neil Young)
06 Metal Heart (Cat Power)
07 Shut Me Down (Rowland S. Howard)
08 Where My Love Lies Asleep (Gene Clark)
09 Smile (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons)
10 The Desperate Kingdom of Love (PJ Harvey)
11 Not Dark Yet (Bob Dylan)
12 Always on My Mind (John Lee Christopher, Jr., Mark James and Wayne Thompson)
First cut…
Original – Cat Power…
DAVE GAHAN: Website