Anyone know the first song she played at this show? I think it was a cover.

I’ll give the show a C+

The show, advertised as “doors at 7, show at 7:30″, didn’t get started until 9:30, because Marshall didn’t show up until 7. So, the patient hipsters were forced to wait in zero degree weather for an extra 2 hours so she could perform her sound check and what not. She came on stage at 9:30 to an angry crowd, who didn’t hold back letting her know how they felt. Not a good start for Marshall, and not a good finish either. The show, while having some high points, like a cover of House of the Rising Sun, had some low points as well, like her making up songs, trying out new ones, not finishing old ones because she forgot them, and (my personal favorite) taking requests from the crowd and then never playing them. The show abruptly ended an hour later at 10:30 with no encore. The venue had to kick everyone out, so they could clean up and re-open it as a lounge at 11:00.

Highlights: The Hiro Ballroom is a sweet looking club.
Lowlights: $30 for band practice with Chan Marshall.
Celebrity Spotting: Molly Shannon.

Anything by My Bloody Valentine

also “aint no sunshine when she’s gone” also just about any nina simone cover would be nice

by the way, i agree with you stuperfly by the way…

“Ooh Child,” (which Nina Simone covered beautifully–I can’t remember who did it originally)

SG,

Those of us who hold out a shred of hope that we’ll witness a fantastic live show instead of the outtakes from the original Bob Newhart Show she tends to favor. That’s who it’s hurting.

If playing live is such an ordeal - and at three of the four Cat Power shows I’ve been to, it obviously has been - why bother doing it at all? If she wants to treat the live experience as some sort of personal cathartic therapy, she should be paying the audience, not the other way around.

I love her albums, but live she’s mostly a self-obsessed disaster.

Oh Stupor… just let the gal work through it, ‘k? Who’s it really hurting?

Feeling Good - Nina Simone

“‘When I was about twelve I got into my daddy’s closet and I found this box of records,’ Marshall said cryptically, explaining her apparent crush on old soul songs.”

Is there no aspect of Chan Marshall’s life that she doesn’t try to mythologize? I’m surprised she didn’t say she’d been given the records by a grizzled old man at a southern crossroads in the middle of nowhere.

If someone does pony up Dylan’s number for poor little Chan, can they do so with the caveat that she profusely apologize for stinking up Lincoln Center at last year’s tribute show in his honor? Following the blistering performance by the Roots couldn’t have been easy, but eschewing her boorish ‘gee whiz’ shy stage spasms and phony spontaneity certainly couldn’t have hurt.

I actually consider myself a fan of Cat Power, but I wish Chan Marshall would stop trying to hard to be an enigma and just concentrate on recording her brilliant music.

Al Green - “Beware”

Percy Sledge Any Day Now

“sinnerman” by nina simone

Otis Redding’s “I’ve been loving you too long” would probably be too much for my heart to bear; her voice would give that song a different kind of emotional punch that may be stronger.

A more recent track: My Morning Jacket’s Bermuda Highway.

Is it just me or is Cat Power’s “Greatest” one of the most overhyped album of the last year? It’s not that she’s bad, but Lord there is so much better music being made. Give it a rest.

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312-555-1212, ask for “Jack Frost.”

sam cook “change gone come”

“Papa was a rolling stone…whereever he laid his head was his home…”

Clarence Carter; “Back Door Santa”