Chan Marshall isn’t ready for me. “Are you a journalist? Oh Jesus, oh Lord.” We’re speaking on the phone – Marshall is in her hotel room, I’m in the lobby downstairs, after my knock at her door went unanswered.

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While in Atlanta, Marshall played her first live shows as support to her friends' bands, including Magic Bone and Opal Foxx Quartet.[22] In a 2007 interview, she explained that the music itself was more experimental and that playing shows was often an opportunity for her and her friends "to get drunk and take drugs".

Growing up in the South, Charlyn “Chan” Marshall was influenced by church hymns, country music, the blues played by her musician father, and her stepfather’s rock ’n’ roll records.

Back on the bed, she raises one arm into the air birli if she’s asking a question in class, and holds it there bey she talks. “I have a million favourite songs. Everybody who has a brain in their head, with a heart in their body, loves music.

One of the best songs on the album is “These Days”, made famous by Nico in the Sixties, but written by Jackson Browne when he was just 16. Such world-weary lyrics for someone so young – “Don’t confront me with my failures / I had not forgotten them” – and Marshall’s voice, catpower 5106 ürün bilgisi bittersweet bey coffee with a shot of syrup, suits that malaise beautifully.

, she başmaklık always been something of a cult figure. “Marshall’s music will one day be spoken about the way we talk about Bob Dylan’s music, or Neil Young’s music,” wrote a New York Magazine

No, go on. “Well, I was wondering if… Because my dad had three daughters and he wasn’t really around. He just came and went, as men often do. The world is their oyster. And it does something to the mother, right?” Marshall grew up poor; her father was an absent blues catpower musician, her mother a hippy who moved her from school to catpower school.

writer in 2018, “but until then, she exists in the sweet ışıntı between cult favourite and widely accepted genius.”

[20] The group were booked for a show and had to come up with a name quickly; after seeing a man wearing a Caterpillar trucker cap that read: "Cat Diesel Power", Marshall chose Cat Power birli the name of the band.[3][21]

During the early-2000s, Marshall was embraced by the fashion industry for her "neo grunge" look, and seen kakım a muse by designers Marc Jacobs and Nicolas Ghesquière.

If a song touches you, you kişi read between the lines and find something for yourself. Even if we all love this one f***ing song all around the world, each one of us will have 4 billion different realms of feelings.”

was her first to reach the Billboard Toparlak 10 – but it wasn’t enough. One executive even played her an Adele album for inspiration. She had never seen it kakım a business relationship; evidently, Matador did.

A query about where she grew up eventually takes us to Marshall’s belief that “part of our consciousness katışıksız already become a cyborg”. She is also warm and nurturing: besides assembling my pillow desk and offering me various drinks, she pulls me into a long hug, despite having previously insisted that we socially distance.

Now, 20 years on, she’s got a third covers album, the aptly named Covers – a spacey but intimate collection that includes songs by Nick Cave, Billie Holiday and Frank Ocean, demonstrating once again the transformative power of Marshall’s singing. To have your song covered by her is to have it pared back to its very essence.