This is going to be an ongoing thing where I do posts of female singers/musicians that I totally adore. Oh and it’s going to be in list form too, because I’m a bit obsessive compulsive like that.
Reasons why I love Charlyn Marie Marshall a.k.a Cat Power:
1. She insists that she never really learned how to play guitar and that it’s probably a good thing;
2. After releasing only one album she quit music altogether and moved to Oregon to work as a babysitter where she lived in a farmhouse and suffered from terrible nightmares which in turn inspired her to write songs again;
3. Her voice is extra velvety;
4. For one of her first performances, she played a two-string guitar and sang “no” over and over for twenty minutes;
5. She counts the likes of Karl Largerfield as a friend and he in turn considers her his muse (I had a conversation with Claire the other day about wanting to be somebody’s muse);
6. Ummmm, she’s a BABE (SHWING);
7. She smokes like it ain’t no thing;
8. She appeared in a film projected on the side of New York’s Musuem of Modern Art for a Doug Aitken exhibition called Sleepwalkers, which followed the lives of five nocturnal New York City dwellers;
9. Her album The Greatest is my favourite out of all her records. It was recorded in Memphis with many of the musicians Al Green worked with in the ’70′s;
10. Her collaboration with Handsome Boy Modelling School on the song I’ve Been Thinking is the sexiest song EVER and I wish to make fake babies to that song one day (too much?).
Hahah dope!
great post, cat power is amazing
definitely – “I’ve Been Thinking” has to be one of the greatest macking songs of all time.
love “Nude as the News”, such a powerful track, brooding and hypnotic