Cat Power - Jukebox - Deluxe Edition
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Free Music Review: FAB
Hit: 4 Stars
Great CD, great mood music, reminds me of Mazzy Star only better, the artist shows great courage to cover these songs and she owns them. What makes her really really special is the band. It's a great marriage.Free Music Review: Dusty in Memphis with the Rolling Stones?
Hit: 5 Stars
My previous exposure to Cat Power was limited to hearing her Dylan cover on the "I'm Not There" soundtrack, but that provided all the incentive I needed to buy this excellent album. Just imagine the music that could have resulted if Dusty Springfield had been in Memphis with the Rolling Stones of 1969-1972. I'm guessing it would have sounded a little bit like "Jukebox." This is a marvelously smoky, sexy soul-blues-roots set and a moving homage to her muses (e.g., Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan). Keyboardist Spooner Oldham--whose many credits include backing Dylan during his gospel period--adds a taste of Memphis soul authenticity to an already fine band. Like the finest `60s and `70s albums in your collection, "Jukebox" has a timeless quality, and it will still sound great 30 years from now. I just wish it included the version of "Dark End of the Street" that Wikipedia says Cat Power recorded but left out of the final album! Free Music Review: "Cover" may not be the right word here.........
Hit: 5 Stars
....but I'm not sure what the proper one is. A "cover" implies doing something that someone else did first. To me, that term is neither negative, nor positive; it's just a statement of fact. Heck, that's all opera singers do, and THEY better not make a number too much their own. Well, I guess these are covers, but Chan Marshall REALLY made them her own; one would have trouble even recognizing some, like "New York", or Joni Mitchell's "Blue". Sounds like a real one star review, doesn't it? But, know what?..........
I like it. Took a couple of listens, but it grows on you. Miss Marshall really does take over these songs, and gives us a very pleasant listening experience. She's not half-bad on her two original compositions, either...
Chan Marshall has a wonderful voice, and benefits from superb back-up. As I said of Sia's "Some People Have Real Problems", it's "quirky", and not for every taste. Still, it's very well done, and you might just like it, too.......
Free Music Review: Chan does it again (hit's another one out of the ballpark)
Hit: 5 Stars
Chan Marshall continues to expand her music in wonderful directions with this great new CD. Back in 2000, she did her really nice "Covers Record" CD which brought her to my attention. For "Jukebox" she expands that concept using her great Dirty Delta Blues Band and other crack musicians, great production, and her own confidence and verve to create another exquisite song collection. This one takes the lush sounds of her last, "The Greatest", and applies it to these great new covers as well as re-dos of a few of her earlier songs. "New York", the first cover song is a brilliant recreation (she did something similar with "Satisfaction" on "Covers"). And the CD flows nicely from there. Cool cover songs choices, and the bonus disc is also worth having.Free Music Review: The Greatest: Top of the Heap
Hit: 5 Stars
It's like Twelve by Patti Smith: you do not really feel these are covers. They do sound like originals. Pure bliss.