Cat Power: to release Jukebox of covers
Chan Marhall has a passion for covering classic folk songs, and on January 22 she will release her second album of covers, Jukebox, on Matador Records. Cat Power entered the studio to share her interpretation of twelve songs that were originally tracked to tape by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, Hank Williams, George Jackson, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lee Clayton, James Carr, Billie Holiday, and Janis Joplin.
Where Cat Power’s previous album, The Greatest, was recorded with some of the finest musicians of the past, Jukebox will pay homage to such artists. This is the second album of covers that Chan Marshall has released; her first covers album was appropriately titled The Covers Record.
“There’s really no such thing as downtime in Chan Marshall’s universe, and while her summer and autumn have been consumed with terrific shows around the globe alongside the Dirty Delta Blues (including a Madison Square Garden gig supporting Interpol earlier this month), the big news around 304 Hudson is that we’re getting ready for ‘Covers II’, a Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues CD/LP of still-to-be-determined length, for an early 2008 release. We’d love to leak the cover art and track listing, but the former was just changed and perhaps the latter will as well. But sometime before the end of the next batch of Cat Power shows, we should have it all figured out.” (Matador Records)
Cat Power – Jukebox tracklist, according to Pitchfork:
01 Theme From ‘New York, New York’ (Kander/Ebb; popularized by Frank Sinatra/Liza Minnelli)
02 Metal Heart (Cat Power)
03 Ramblin’ (Wo)man (Hank Williams)
04 Song To Bobby (Cat Power– new song)
05 Aretha, Sing One For Me (J Harris/Eugene William; originally sung by George Jackson)
06 Lost Someone (James Brown)
07 I Believe In You (Bob Dylan)
08 Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
09 Silver Stallion (Lee Clayton)
10 Dark End of the Street (Chips Moman/Dan Penn; originally sung by James Carr)
11 Don’t Explain (Billie Holiday)
12 Woman Left Lonely (Spooner Oldham/Dan Penn, popularized by Janis Joplin)
Cat Power – The Greatest
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