Cat Power Talks Her ‘Sings Bob Dylan’ Album, Her History With His Music, and Meeting the Man Himself
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Chan Marshall — a.k.a Cat Power — is one of the most distinctive singers of her generation, emerging from the indie-rock scene of the early ‘90s to become a unique artist fusing a multitude of styles that range from rock to folk to low-key soul, in a long string of albums that alternate between originals and covers.
Raised in Georgia, Charlyn Marshall (Chan is a childhood nickname that is pronounced “Shawn”) relocated to New York in the early ‘90s and was adopted by the city’s indie-rock community, releasing a string of increasingly strong albums.
A sultry and deceptively powerful singer, her popularity peaked in the mid-‘00s with the critics’ favorite and NPR icon “The Greatest” and the following covers collection “Jukebox,” but she’s released albums every few years ever since, with her most recent collection of originals, “Wanderer,” arriving in 2018.
Her latest move, however, was an unexpected one. A 2022 offer to perform at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall inspired her to perform not her own songs but instead covers of the entire setlist of Bob Dylan’s legendary concert at the venue in 1966, during his embattled first “electric” tour.
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