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  Cat Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The daughter of divorced parents, Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall was born in Georgia.
Marshall will often stop playing in order to apologize for a self-perceived flaw in her performance, and often claims to be suffering from extreme stage fright.
Marshall is of Cherokee, Irish, Dutch, and Jewish descent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cat_Power   (2045 words)

  
 Matador Records | Cat Power Biography
In that film, Marshall herself played the professionaltrainer of the fighting cocks, and was just as laconic and offbeat an actor as she was a songwriter, and still nobody noticed.
I knew Marshall some in the last years of her life, and found her gentle and knowledgable and absolutley secure in her own persona, which makes her on the surface much different from that final creation of hers.
Chan Marshall was never a failure, in the sense that her songs are very good songs, carefully wrought.
www.matadorrecords.com /cat_power/biography.html   (1407 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Cat Power: biography, discography, reviews, links
Marshall was, at the same time, the cameraman and the actress: she played the role of a tormented heroine while she was filming herself playing that role.
Marshall is, at the same time, the cameraman and the actress: she plays the role of a tormented heroine and films herself playing that role.
Marshall's return to form and her first collection of original material in a long time, You Are Free (Matador, 2003) completes the ideal trilogy of masterpieces with What Would The Community Think and Moon Pix.
www.scaruffi.com /vol5/catpower.html   (2613 words)

  
 cabbagetown kid
How the younger Marshall's album ended up one of the high points in a music year as dominated by prefab pop-chart pap as any in recent memory, is a story so full of circumstance it couldn't possibly have been a simple matter of luck.
Chan spent most of 1997 at home -- cooking, taking walks, playing with her cat -- without once picking up her guitar.
When Chan finally does settle back into her old neighborhood, Cabbagetown may prove somewhat dislocating for her, given all the development that has gone on in the six years she's been away.
members.tripod.com /goodcleanfun78/id10.htm   (1646 words)

  
 cat rocket article
The second time I talked to Chan Marshall, she was sitting on my lawn (she lived in Portland for a few months in 1996), delicately removing a label from a plastic bottle of water.
While Marshall's live performances can often be trying affairs (aimless strumming, fractured songs, a seeming indifference to the audience), as her attention wanders and she's unable to assemble her music in a coherent fashion, they reveal much about an artist struggling with the veracity of the situation.
Here at the piano is Chan Marshall the torch singer at her sultriest, aching and cracking with smoldering cool, like a dangerous dame signing the sexy theme for a Ross MacDonald novel-turned-film.
members.tripod.com /goodcleanfun78/id39.htm   (1534 words)

  
 Chan Marshall
Born in Atlanta and raised by itinerant hippies all around the southern United States, Charlyn Marie Marshall was given the initial exposure to her future career through her musician father.
When her parents eventually divorced, Marshall spent most of her time in the custody of her mother; upon dropping out of high school at the age of 16, however, she switched over to the paternal nest back in Atlanta.
As Marshall's popularity increased, so did her stage fright, and stories of her on-stage meltdowns achieved wide circulation in the press.
www.nndb.com /people/284/000082038   (490 words)

  
 Complaint: SEC v. Bruce Hill, Graham Marshall, and Steven Paxhia
Marshall told Chan that Inso would complete the sale to US Airways early in the fourth quarter and that US Airways, not Chan, would be the actual purchaser and would be responsible for paying Inso for the purchase.
When Chan asked Marshall about the terms that stated the order was "non-cancelable" and "non-refundable," Marshall gave Chan his word that Chan would not have to pay, and that he simply needed to pass the US Airways order through Chan in order to record the revenue in the third quarter.
Marshall falsely informed the CFO that Chan had performed the work to his satisfaction, and that an engineer in Marshall's group also was satisfied with Chan's work.
www.sec.gov /litigation/complaints/complr17578b.htm   (6939 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On each new album, Marshall has more firmly established her haunting musical persona: that of a Southern belle in bluejeans, a trashed Faulkner heroine whose arias of disillusionment, hope, fantasy, bitterness, and understanding are played out in 4/4 time and in a distinctly American syntax.
Marshall’s sound, which centers on her voice—wood-smoked and honey-basted, with Dixie-inflected vowels and consonants that trail off like half-forgotten thoughts—is a direct outgrowth of the blues, but not the blues as a declaration of anger and disaffection (as with Benjamin Smoke) or as stripped-down tempo overlaid with poetic fantasies (as with Patti Smith).
Marshall’s stubborn refusal to be liked seemed to enact the frustration of many American women, who feel they have to be seen in order to be heard.
www.newyorker.com /critics/music/?030818crmu_music   (1220 words)

  
 Cat Power: Ordinary People
Marshall has just buzzed me into the low-rent housing complex ("a squat," as she puts it the night before) that she's lived in, on and off, for the past 13 years.
Marshall isn't dressed yet (it's four o'clock in the afternoon) and is walking around in a faded orange tank top, an oversized denim shirt and a pair of boxer shorts.
Marshall's living situation for the past two years has allowed her to alternate between New York, Miami and Atlanta, where "home" includes everything from a rickety old house in Georgia to a borrowed one-bedroom apartment off the Florida coast.
harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3866   (3571 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: Spotlight: Cat Power: Stubb's, 9pm
Given Chan Marshall's reputation as a lugubrious songstress and sometimes-unhinged performer, it's hard to know what to expect upon entering into conversation with her.
Not surprisingly, Marshall's mind wanders far and wide over the course of 20 minutes, from the club fire in Rhode Island and what effect that might have on her own performances to our stupid president and fighting with her boyfriend.
And perhaps that's why interviewing Chan Marshall is such a trip: Her playful coyness in person forces you to turn back to the music for the answers you seek.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-03-14/music_feature10.html   (376 words)

  
 Splendid E-zine: Features: Cat Power
The song is not a plea from young lover to young lover, but a sorrowful and passionate entreaty from an older lover to the person he/she loves, about the necessity of their love but also the unspoken understanding that the love might need to end.
On those two early albums, Marshall seems to be singing from her stomach, in the moment’s pains and joys, often at the expense of clarity and the melody.
Marshall may long for privacy, but I think she also sees in herself what she can do for people.
www.splendidezine.com /features/catpower   (2078 words)

  
 Splendid E-zine reviews: Cat Power
In subsequent interviews, Marshall referred to these recordings as "The Piano Album" and said they would be her next release.
Marshall had dropped the anthem chorus, leaving only the verses that, as sung by her, sounded like a litany of reasons both to end your life and keep living.
Marshall has taken the beauty and longing of Moon Pix, her best release so far, and continued.
www.splendidezine.com /reviews/mar-27-00/cat.html   (532 words)

  
 User Comments for The Greatest by Cat Power
Chan Marshall aka Cat Power goes for the memphis blues to influence her on this wonderful album that seems to have deep thought and love put into it.
Chan is so good that even my least favorite album from her is miles ahead of other artists.
Chan Marshall has luckily chosen the former, and the result is what will already be one of 2006's best albums.
www.metacritic.com /music/usercomments.jsp?id_string=2288:kcS98o-fz-bm08coGGVGxw**   (1257 words)

  
 New York Cool
Chan Marshall, the sobering solo artist that is Cat Power, is an introverted, but highly talented singer notoriously known for her sporadic and sometimes despondent playing style.
Three-fourths through the performance, as Chan rotates from her guitar to the ivory keys, she states, “It will all be over soon, I promise.” The audience does its best to reassure the humble Marshall, who seems completely unaware of the magical moment she has brought.
Looking back, Chan Marshall made a lot of promises that night, but I can only swear that her act is worth witnessing.
www.newyorkcool.com /archives/2005/March/music_5.htm   (535 words)

  
 The power of one - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Chan Marshall, aka Catpower, is a famously reticent interviewee, but Guy Blackman found her with something to talk about at last: the joy of being home alone.
Marshall has been living there for just a few weeks, after getting off a US tour in late November, but it's this home base that has prompted her unexpected inner calm.
Understandably, Marshall spent the first week of her Miami holiday sick in bed, her body telling her to just stop, but since then has been slowly rediscovering what it is like to have a home of her own, and the time to do whatever she wants.
www.theage.com.au /news/music/the-power-of-one/2006/01/12/1136956295956.html   (1613 words)

  
 Chan Marshall - AOL Music
UK residents should be thrilled to learn that Chan Marshall and the...
Chan Marshall will be performing a selection of covers that didn't quite make it onto...
Chan Marshall will be on the cover of the Feb/March issue of Mean...
music.aol.com /artist/chan-marshall/304663/main   (147 words)

  
 Cat Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
All this is still more remarkable when you consider that it wasn't Marshall's intention to become a musician, but rather something she happened into when she came to New York City and met some prominent members of the downtown music scene, including God Is My Co-Pilot and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley.
Marshall really distinguished herself though with her first Matador album, What Would the Community Think, which featured gentler and more fleshed out arrangements and the kind of laconic phrasing, subtle tension, and offbeat melancholy for which she has since become known.
Chan Marshall fully delivered on the promise of Community two years later when she released her magnum opus Moon Pix, a true masterpiece of emotional shading and compositional clarity.
www.epitonic.com /artists/catpower.html   (600 words)

  
 Interview with Chan Marshall on cnn.com. - @forums
We have asked repeatedly that old threads not be bumped, but it seems as if you cannot abide by such a simple request, so we are abiding by the request for you.
But Marshall has realized that expressing herself is one of the things she does best.
MARSHALL: I think that it's important for a lot of people to -- my friends say, "Chan, you're just going to have to keep doing what you're doing because you've been doing it for a while, and you have to kind of accept that this is what you do now."
www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=200547   (1027 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Greatest: Music: Cat Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is not to say that Marshall has gone over the edge in any way, yet in The Greatest her voice seems to reach for new tender corners and there's a certain compassion for her songs' characters in this album which- at least to me-have never been this apparent in the past.
Chan Marshall (as Cat Power) has long been known as a quirky and intriguing singer-songwriter, with multiple instrumental and writing talents, and a unique lyrical vision.
Chan Marshall is accompanied by crack virtuosos who add an assured Alt-Country and Memphis Blues feel to this album, with tasteful additions of horns, harmonicas, and twangy guitars.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000C0X3ZC?v=glance   (2256 words)

  
 San Diego CityBEAT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Chan Marshall ambled onstage, took a sip of whisky and said hello to the crowd in her trademark girly-gruff voice.
Marshall’s folksy, blues-tinged tunes are exactly that—the kind of music you want to hear after a long, shitty day—sleepy, afternoon porch songs that lull life’s grime right out of your pores.
Marshall performs with confidence in the studio, working every note and fragile crack of her voice with utter precision.
www.sdcitybeat.com /article.php?id=565   (583 words)

  
 Cat Power Lyrics
Most likely, Chan Marshall was born in 1972 (her star sign is Aquarius).
Her father was a musician and for a while Chan lived with a band called mother's finest.
Chan attended 12 different schools but dropped out of school altogether at the age of 16.
www.xs4all.nl /~bigron/sonic/tychan.html   (555 words)

  
 Matador Records | Cat Power
UK residents should be thrilled to learn that Chan Marshall and the Memphis Rhythm Band will be performing at London's luxurious Barbican on June 21, followed by a television broadcast of two songs during BBC2's "Later With Jools Holland" on June 23.
Chan is a good friend and a dear member of the Matador family, and when we have news about future performances, we'll be certain to share it with you here.
Chan Marshall will be performing a selection of covers that didn't quite make it onto 'The Covers Record,' taped at Maida Vale just a few weeks ago.
www.matadorrecords.com /cat_power   (3425 words)

  
 index magazine interview
Chan is the most dramatic performer I've ever seen, and she doesn't even DO anything, she just stands there with her guitar and that voice — the jolting, swooping, sheer force of it.
CHAN: When I played that show last year, I was like, "This is it, hang it up, shut it up, move away and never come back." And then I was in South Carolina by myself for an entire month.
CHAN: You know, the cult where the people wear orange and it's a really open-your-soul kind of thing — just have sex with me, and let me have sex with you, and have children, and let the wives take care of the kids, or something.
www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/chan_marshall.shtml   (2191 words)

  
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 Cat Power and The Memphis Rhythm Band - PopMatters Concert Review
Those who've seen Marshall perform in the past several years understand just how dramatic the change is: she was flexing her arms during "The Greatest", doing a chicken dance between verses, hugging and joking with her band members, and popping her limbs during even the smokiest ballads.
Chan's back there in her little cocoon -- drunk." Begin an acoustic cover of "Hit the Road Jack", with the lyrics revised to "Hey, you're good-looking, and man, you can sing / you can play the guitar like I never seen.../ Hit the road, Chan, and don't you come back no more."
Much of the show read like La Chan est mort / Vive la Chan!, a farewell to Marshall's clouded former self and a moving demonstration that she has come to terms with her role as a performer.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/c/cat-power-060611.shtml   (916 words)

  
 The FADER Magazine - Greatest Hits
Marshall’s songs have been self-taught and spit-swapped and because of this, they are irrevocably hers—a blend of shamanistic chants, rock dirges and holy music.
The third track on Marshall’s new album, The Greatest, is called “In a Bar” and it begins as a bluesy, last-call number: simple piano chords and a sax moaning low alongside her voice, mellowed to a whiskey alto.
In every interview ever written about Chan Marshall, there is mention of her breaking into a chorus of “Do you hate me? Are you mad at me?” At a karaoke bar somewhere around 4:15 in the morning, this chorus begins over the Shania Twain song on the jukebox—it is exhausting and terrible-feeling.
www.thefader.com /blog/articles/2006/01/26/greatest-hits   (1599 words)

  
 Luna Kafé - Cat Power: an interview with...
I met up with Chan in Cologne, Germany a couple of months ago, when she came to Europe to do some interviews and play a couple of exclusive shows.
Chan: I never had been to Scandinavia, but this guy in Oslo wanted me to play there for a long time.
Chan: Well, in Atlanta you need to have a car and you spend a lot of time in it.
www.lunakafe.com /moon45/usny45.php?ads=   (1294 words)

  
 +++ neumu [ the drama you've been craving ]
Chan Marshall, the artist who uses the name Cat Power, says she doesn't think there's anything special about the music she makes.
Marshall was affirming the creativity that is in all of us.
For Marshall, expressing herself through music is as basic to life as breathing.
www.neumu.net /drama/2003/2003-00008/2003-00008_drama.shtml   (1008 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Moon Pix: Music: Cat Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It's an interesting contradiction mirrored in Marshall's vocal and lyrical talents; her voice soars and croons, sometimes trading melodies with a wandering flute line, while her lyrics are powerful, inscrutable, and fiercely intimate.
Chan's ability to craft these tunes with as much emotion as I've ever heard is not just unique in these musically apocalyptic times, but is so important.
Chan Marshall (is that her name?) adopts a kind of child-visionary persona, delivering an idiosyncratic mixture of surreal, direct, and insinuating lyrics that are enough to rend your heart the more you hear them.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009VOL?v=glance   (1584 words)

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