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SONG OF THE DAY | CAT POWER : WILLIE DEADWILDER (extended version 18:19 minutes )

 

Cat Power - Willie Deadwilder

"This is a rare extended version of the song "Willie", track number six on Cat Power's album The Greatest. It was recorded during the sessions of the You Are Free album, back in 2003. Also, this was released as a bonus track with the Speaking for Trees DVD.

The vocals on the song are provided by Cat Power (Chan Marshall), and it features M. Ward (half of the She & Him indie pop duet) playing the guitar. It was written by both of them and recorded in a single take.

I'm not a great video editor, so I just selected some pictures of Chan to go along with this great tune, which is the thing to be enjoyed here. She is really cute, though.

The lyrics are too long, so Youtube wouldn't allow me to post them on the description, which makes sense as the song is 18 minutes long." They can be found here:

http://www.metrolyrics.com/willie-dea...

with Thanks to 

Julio Carneiro [YouTube]

for drawing my attention to this version

Song(s) of the Day : CAT POWER - METAL HEART

Again some to clear the decks with after the Christmas debacle and this one again from Alice over at O My Soul . . . . . .

O My Soul

Metal Heart || Cat Power

ADVERT BREAK | CAT POWER SINGS DYLAN :: THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL CONCERT

"In November 2022, Cat Power took the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966—but long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg—the original performance saw Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing ire from an audience of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock-and-roll. In her own rendition of that historic night, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall inhabited each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy. Now captured on the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall’s spellbinding performance both lovingly honors her hero’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs."

Slightly disappointing in that they can’t even get the dates right on the marketing ads . . . . . it was recorded last year 2022 Nov 5th . . .still nit picking aside check this action!

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more music of the day . . . .CAT POWER : ‘Good Woman’ & ‘Naked If I Want'

 

Cat Power performing 'Good Woman' on the Channel [V] show, The Joint, in 1999.

Cat Power - Naked If I Want To (Live) 2006

Transmusicales Rennes, France December 7th, 2006

we like Chan don’t we?

I do!

CAT POWER : Primavera Sound Buenos Aires 2022 | BIG O

 CAT POWER

We love Chan Marshall and her covers projects continue and are backed up by her tracks listed on her live appearances. Here with The Stones, a Kitty Wells country classic, Liza Minelli (yes really!) and even Lana Del Ray! This is a treat

Cat Power - Live in Buenos Aires 2022 - BIG O

Big O says:

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In January 2022, Cat Power [Chan Marshall] released her 11th studio album, Covers. It is her third collection of cover songs, following 2000’s The Covers Record and 2008’s Jukebox. Critics have noted the constant evolution of Cat Power’s sound, with a mix of punk, folk and blues on her earliest albums, and elements of soul and other genres more prevalent in her later material. - wikipedia

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Track 01. Say/Great Expectations 4:13
Track 02. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [Rolling Stones]/Good Woman/Hate 9:14
Track 03. Bad Religion [Frank Ocean] 4:15
Track 04. White Mustang [Lana Del Ray] 2:59
Track 05. Metal Heart 3:53
Track 06. New York, New York [Liza Minnelli]/Manhattan 7:34
Track 07. The Moon 5:43
Track 08. Cross Bones Style 4:05
Track 09. It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels [Kitty Wells] 3:07
Track 10. He Was a Friend of Mine/Shivers 7:40
Track 11. The Greatest 4:40
58 mins

CAT POWER - CARDIFF 2022 BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL - Big O

 

Love some Cat Power (Chan Marshall) and the Festival continues to inpisre what a selection of artists. . . . . check the notes of Cat's appearance as it contains  info about her performance here where she is singing double-micked with herself and one voice through a "heavy layer of auto-tune"! I know some express dilate as to the use of these machinery but here Cat is using it as another instrument if you will. Either way it is a staggering performance and well worth the download . . . . . . 

Cat Power - BBC Radio 6 Festival Cardiff 2022 - Big O

Track 01. He Was a Friend of Mine/Oh! Sweet Nuthin’/Never Tear Us Apart/Shivers 5:44
Track 02. Manhattan 3:47
Track 03. Song to Bobby 3:01
Track 04. Metal Heart 4:07
Track 05. I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart 4:23
Track 06. Good Woman 2:32
Track 07. I’ll Be Seeing You [Sammy Fain]/Wild Is the Wind [Dimitri Tiomkin & Ned Washington] 6:28
Track 08. Here Comes a Regular [The Replacements] 4:33
Track 09. Hate 3:22
Track 10. The Greatest 3:16
Track 11. It Wasn’t God who made Honky Tonk Angels [JD Miller] 3:25

The Greatest - Cat Power - live in Cardiff 2002 (Radio 6 Festival)

CAT POWER - LOS ANGELES 2018 (Big O)

 CAT POWER

RADIO KCRW LOS ANGELES 2018

Big O

Nice set at broadcast quality from Chan Marshall as ever the highly distinctive and attractive voice and power of her singing and writing remains ever fascinating

Cat Power Live in KCRW LA 2018

From the time of the release of Wanderer

Big O says:

“Wanderer”… contains, in the abstract poetic fragments of any Cat Power album, the reasons Marshall could not just pack it all in. For one, she is still too vibrant a songwriter, with too extraordinary a voice and too many feelings, to stop now. An eternally exposed nerve who refuses to present as fully healed or whole, even in the era of self-care and commodified feminism, Marshall has always sounded as if she’d seen some things. Now, at 46, she truly has the life experience to back up her songs, steeped as they are in the soul and blues traditions, a rarity in indie rock. In 11 spare tracks, Marshall seems confident, at last, in her identity as a rootless seeker and storyteller, firm in the instability of her atypical existence.

But [her ex-label] Matador rejected the album.

“They said, do it again, do it over,” Marshall explained. (Her former manager, Andy Slater, confirmed that Matador told him “Wanderer” was “not good enough, not strong enough to put out.” The album was eventually released by Domino.)

“[Slater’s] taught me that I have a lot to be proud of,” Marshall said, noting that in the past she was just thankful to be working, more concerned with getting from point A to point B than her legacy. “It’s not pretentious that I’m an artist. It’s not corny to sing songs that maybe other people think are depressing. It’s not embarrassing.”

Marshall said she’d received the same mandate from Matador during recording as she had for “Sun,” her previous album from 2012. “It was like, ‘We need hits!’” she said. “And I did it - I got Top 10. I did the best I could to give them hits” on “Sun,” using bright synths and more modern sounds.

But to Marshall, the label had always represented artistic freedom. “Looking back, I know they were using me,” she said, recalling a Matador executive playing her an album by Adele and telling her that that was how a record was supposed to sound. “I understood that I was a product,” she said, “and I always thought I was a person.”

Marshall said she did not alter the music after the label change, but did add a track: “Woman,” featuring Lana Del Rey (whom Marshall opened for on the European leg of her LA to the Moon Tour), which in many ways became the defiant, upbeat centerpiece of an understated album. Asked if the track, which has received more than a million YouTube views in a month, was a middle finger to her ex-label, Marshall demurred: “Thank you for asking, but no comment.”

 

CAT POWER

There were a couple of nice sets from Big O since yesterday and I feel badly I forgot to mention Chan Marshall's set so I'll make up for that now. 'Cat Power' as her stage name would have her is a true creative force of nature and this is worth checking out from Paris late last year. She is always worth catching up with IMHO and is currently celebrating supporting her tenth album!

It's worth reading the liner notes as it were
Big O says:

CAT POWERParis 2018 [no label, 1CD]Live at Studio 105 de La Maison de la Radio, Paris, France; October 24, 2018. Very good FM broadcast.
In October 2018, Cat Power (Chan Marshall) released her 10th studio album, Wanderer.
Joe Coscarelli, nytimes.com:
“Wanderer”… contains, in the abstract poetic fragments of any Cat Power album, the reasons Marshall could not just pack it all in. For one, she is still too vibrant a songwriter, with too extraordinary a voice and too many feelings, to stop now. An eternally exposed nerve who refuses to present as fully healed or whole, even in the era of self-care and commodified feminism, Marshall has always sounded as if she’d seen some things. Now, at 46, she truly has the life experience to back up her songs, steeped as they are in the soul and blues traditions, a rarity in indie rock. In 11 spare tracks, Marshall seems confident, at last, in her identity as a rootless seeker and storyteller, firm in the instability of her atypical existence.
But [her ex-label] Matador rejected the album.
“They said, do it again, do it over,” Marshall explained. (Her former manager, Andy Slater, confirmed that Matador told him “Wanderer” was “not good enough, not strong enough to put out.” The album was eventually released by Domino.)
“[Slater’s] taught me that I have a lot to be proud of,” Marshall said, noting that in the past she was just thankful to be working, more concerned with getting from point A to point B than her legacy. “It’s not pretentious that I’m an artist. It’s not corny to sing songs that maybe other people think are depressing. It’s not embarrassing.”
Marshall said she’d received the same mandate from Matador during recording as she had for “Sun,” her previous album from 2012. “It was like, ‘We need hits!’” she said. “And I did it - I got Top 10. I did the best I could to give them hits” on “Sun,” using bright synths and more modern sounds.
But to Marshall, the label had always represented artistic freedom. “Looking back, I know they were using me,” she said, recalling a Matador executive playing her an album by Adele and telling her that that was how a record was supposed to sound. “I understood that I was a product,” she said, “and I always thought I was a person.”
Marshall said she did not alter the music after the label change, but did add a track: “Woman,” featuring Lana Del Rey (whom Marshall opened for on the European leg of her LA to the Moon Tour), which in many ways became the defiant, upbeat centerpiece of an understated album. Asked if the track, which has received more than a million YouTube views in a month, was a middle finger to her ex-label, Marshall demurred: “Thank you for asking, but no comment.”

Cat Power Big O 2018

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