Like the jukebox on her last covers comp, Cat Power's Chan Marshall is a storehouse of great songs. This EP leads off with a trembling take on "Dark End of the Street," a classic cheating song that epitomizes the simmering Seventies Southern soul Marshall has explored since 2006's The Greatest. She also faithfully covers Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)," while her...

Chan Marshall is holed up with the current love of her life in a SoHo hotel room, and for this brief moment, she couldn't be happier. The sheets are rumpled. Room-service trays are everywhere, covered with the remnants of her last few meals — half-eaten fruit plates, drained-dry beer bottles. As late-afternoon sunshine pushes through closed shades, Marshall is rolling around on pale-green bedding...