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Mercurial Changeling Singer/Songwriter By T. Cole RachelSouthern singer/songwriter wielding a distinctively beautiful voice and a fascinatingly confounding personality
Cat Power is the musical nom de plume of Chan Marshall, a Southern singer/songwriter wielding one of the most distinctively beautiful voices in contemporary pop, as well as one of its most fascinatingly confounding personalities. Marshall first took the mid-'90s indie rock underground by storm (albeit a troubled and mostly quiet storm) with starkly minimalist albums such as What Would The Community Think and Moon Pix. Her unusual and highly personal brand of spooky, bluesy folk-rock made her a critical darling, but it was her onstage performances-skittish, unpredictable, often brilliant and occasionally disastrous-that seemed to garner the most press. Following a period of recurrent substance abuse problems, 2006's The Greatest signaled a kind of creative rebirth for Marshall, painting her as a soul singer in the classic tradition with help from old school Memphis soul legends like guitarist Teenie Hodges. Finally free of the paralyzing stage fears that had dogged her for so much of her early career, Marshall spent the next several years on the road with the excellent Dirty Delta Blues Band.
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