LP Record review:
Cat Power - The Covers Record

Cat Power - The Covers Record

Band: Cat Power Title: The Covers Record Rating: Release Date: 09 September, 2003 Media: LP Record Tracks: 1: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2: Kingsport Town 3: Troubled Waters 4: Naked, If I Want To 5: Sweedeedee 6: In This Hole 7: I Found a Reason 8: Wild Is the Wind 9: Red Apples 10: Paths of Victory 11: Salty Dog 12: Sea of Love

Editoral Review Here, she takes another step back while also taking a step forward. Chan Marshall devised the Cat Power moniker in order to put a degree of separation between herself and the often-twisted individuals who inhabit her songs. As the album title indicates, these are covers of other people's songs. Yet she sings them with no less intensity than if they were her own. Mick Jagger may have snarled the definitive "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," but Marshall takes a different tack. She removes the chorus and returns it as elegant slow blues. The Velvet Underground's "I Found a Reason" becomes a near-wordless cry. She relies only on her sufficient guitar picking and likeably amateurish piano tinkling, creating an isolated web not unlike that of Neil Young at his most deserted. Most appropriately, she covers "Red Apples" by Smog, whom she resembles in approach. Obscure (traditional and early) Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, and Michael Hurley tunes complement the bruised but not buried surroundings. --Rob O'Connor .. You can see a complete list of all Cat Power discography, or go back to the Cat Power tabs