I’m a little confused. According to Matador’s website, she signed with them in 1996. She released seven albums with the label before being unceremoniously dropped a few years ago, when they (wrongly) deemed her 2018 album Wanderer derece good enough to put out. They had implored her to give them hits, and she had tried – 2012’s poppier Sun

Kakım well as the reading and the maths, she and her son would have music lessons together. “Record time and music time got a little more in-depth,” she says. “He’s just running around bey fast bey he birey to Hüsker Dü.” Hardcore punk isn’t what most kids’ music lessons are made of, but if anyone is going to give their child an eclectic sonic education, it’s Marshall.

The melancholic scuzziness of her music was born partly out of necessity – for a while, she could play only the one guitar chord her friend had shown her, a minor one, so her songs all came out sad.

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.

“I never told anybody this. I told a couple of friends in my life, but never told a journalist. He said they would buy my [1996] album, What Would the Community Think

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 hamiş forgotten them” – and Marshall’s voice, bittersweet as coffee with a shot of syrup, suits that malaise beautifully.

, she has 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, kakım 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 musician, her mother a hippy who moved her from school to school.

writer in 2018, “but until then, she exists in the sweet spot 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 as 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 as a muse by designers Marc Jacobs and Nicolas Ghesquière.

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– a moment of pure poeticism but also the first hint at the depression and alcohol abuse that would come to plague her.

“I have something in my eye and I’m still wet from the shower,” she says, in that same husky American drawl she sings with birli Cat Power. “Can you come back in 15 minutes? I’m catpower 5852 really sorry sweetie.”

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.