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Stand out tracks = Greatest, Lived In Bars, Where Is My Love
Tracklisting:-
Greatest
Living Proof
Lived In Bars
Could We
Empty Shell
Willie
Where Is My Love
Moon
Islands
After It All
Hate
Love And Communication
Up And Gone
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The Greatest - Cat Power
Indie-folk singer Chan Marshall has a reputation for onstage unpredictability, but some
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erratic (read: often drunken) live performances won't have prepared you for the full-bodied beast that is The Greatest. Recorded with the help of a few Memphis musicians, including Al Green co-writer Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, his brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges, and present Booker T And The MGs drummer Steve Potts, this is a gentle homage to `70s soul that Chan carries with a sleepy-eyed charm. Element of pastiche or not, though, there's a vitality here that's absent from many of her earlier recordings: "Living Proof" simmers with a just-under-the-surface raunch, Chan cooing "It's not your face/Or the colour of your hair/Or the sound of your voice, my dearÂ?" over the simmering organ, while even the restrained "Where Is My Love" boasts a mini-orchestra of sweeping violin and elegiac, wandering piano. Most importantly, The Greatest doesn't suffer from the rather troublesome sense of genre tourism you get when, say, Will Oldham hooks up with a troupe of Nashville old-hands - perhaps because it's executed so convincingly, or perhaps simply because Chan Marshall's voice could melt your heart under any context--Louis Pattison
The Greatest - Cat Power
Indie-folk singer Chan Marshall has a reputation for onstage unpredictability, but some
... more
erratic (read: often drunken) live performances won't have prepared you for the full-bodied beast that is The Greatest. Recorded with the help of a few Memphis musicians, including Al Green co-writer Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, his brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges, and present Booker T And The MGs drummer Steve Potts, this is a gentle homage to `70s soul that Chan carries with a sleepy-eyed charm. Element of pastiche or not, though, there's a vitality here that's absent from many of her earlier recordings: "Living Proof" simmers with a just-under-the-surface raunch, Chan cooing "It's not your face/Or the colour of your hair/Or the sound of your voice, my dearÂ?" over the simmering organ, while even the restrained "Where Is My Love" boasts a mini-orchestra of sweeping violin and elegiac, wandering piano. Most importantly, The Greatest doesn't suffer from the rather troublesome sense of genre tourism you get when, say, Will Oldham hooks up with a troupe of Nashville old-hands - perhaps because it's executed so convincingly, or perhaps simply because Chan Marshall's voice could melt your heart under any context--Louis Pattison
erratic (read: often drunken) live performances won't have prepared you for the full-bodied beast that is The Greatest. Recorded with the help of a few Memphis musicians, including Al Green co-writer Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, his brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges, and present Booker T And The MGs drummer Steve Potts, this is a gentle homage to `70s soul that Chan carries with a sleepy-eyed charm. Element of pastiche or not, though, there's a vitality here that's absent from many of her earlier recordings: "Living Proof" simmers with a just-under-the-surface raunch, Chan cooing "It's not your face/Or the colour of your hair/Or the sound of your voice, my dearÂ?" over the simmering organ, while even the restrained "Where Is My Love" boasts a mini-orchestra of sweeping violin and elegiac, wandering piano. Most importantly, The Greatest doesn't suffer from the rather troublesome sense of genre tourism you get when, say, Will Oldham hooks up with a troupe of Nashville old-hands - perhaps because it's executed so convincingly, or perhaps simply because Chan Marshall's voice could melt your heart under any context--Louis Pattison
erratic (read: often drunken) live performances won't have prepared you for the full-bodied beast that is The Greatest. Recorded with the help of a few Memphis musicians, including Al Green co-writer Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, his brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges, and present Booker T And The MGs drummer Steve Potts, this is a gentle homage to `70s soul that Chan carries with a sleepy-eyed charm. Element of pastiche or not, though, there's a vitality here that's absent from many of her earlier recordings: "Living Proof" simmers with a just-under-the-surface raunch, Chan cooing "It's not your face/Or the colour of your hair/Or the sound of your voice, my dearÂ?" over the simmering organ, while even the restrained "Where Is My Love" boasts a mini-orchestra of sweeping violin and elegiac, wandering piano. Most importantly, The Greatest doesn't suffer from the rather troublesome sense of genre tourism you get when, say, Will Oldham hooks up with a troupe of Nashville old-hands - perhaps because it's executed so convincingly, or perhaps simply because Chan Marshall's voice could melt your heart under any context--Louis Pattison
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Advantages: Chilled out, Soulful and packed with melody Disadvantages: nothing bad about this cat
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Stand out tracks = Greatest, Lived In Bars, Where Is My Love Tracklisting:-
Greatest
Living Proof
Lived In Bars
Could We
Empty Shell
Willie
Where Is My Love
Moon
Islands
After It All
Hate
Love And Communication
Up And Gone ...
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Album Notes: Chan Marshall's gorgeous, evocative albums as Cat Power have gained even more critical and popular attention than her idiosyncratic on-stage behavior (and that's saying quite a bit). MOON PIX (1998) and YOU ARE FREE (2004), the two albums of all-original material preceding 2006's THE GREATEST, were spellbinding affairs that pitted Marshall's haunting voice against a stirring melange of spare, low-key indie rock and atmospheric balladry. THE GREATEST, however, one of Marshall's most focused and impressive efforts, surpasses those two superb albums.
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.60) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[U]nsettling but intimate....[A]n album full of bittersweet love and tiny pleasures."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Greatest
2.: Living Proof
3.: Lived In Bars
4.: Could We
5.: Empty Shell
6.: Willie
7.: Where Is My Love
8.: Moon
9.: Islands
10.: After It All
11.: Hate
12.: Love And Communication
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