Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Cat Power
The Covers Record
(Matador, 2000)
Bare bones interpretations by the enigmatic queen of indie hearts.
Harking back to a time when putting your own mark on other people's material was not the same indicator of creative bankruptcy it is now, Chan Marshall's first covers album from 2000 is an extraordinary expression of the artist's bleakly beautiful vision. More make-unders than reworkings, her lovely, evocative voice with minimal accompaniment is all it takes to make The Stones or Smog songs sound almost indistinguishable from her own (though one of them actually is her own: a serene revisiting of Is This Hole from 1996's What Would The Community Think LP). Her choice of songs doubtless introduced some fans of 1998's spectral Moonpix to artists like Nina Simone or Michael Hurley for the first time. As it was in pre web-time, you may recall, exploring musical references made by your favourite no-job, too-much-time-to-record-shop muso was one of the best things about being a teen reading the music weeklies in the 1980s and '90s. Chan Marshall has a blues pianist for a father and probably had no need to discover Moby Grape via interviews with Dinosaur Jr or whoever, but the point is her versions don't require fitting into any existing musical schema to appreciate them, what she communicates through these songs is so clearly herself. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is perhaps best of all. Stripped of its chorus and Jagger's puff-cheeked bluster, it becomes a sighing, soulful blues, blood warm and shiveringly intimate.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 08/04/2009
Further Listening
Cat Power – Juke Box (Matador, 2008)
Phosphorescent – To Willie (Dead Oceans, 2009)
Frank Black Francis – Frank Black Francis (Cooking Vinyl, 2004)
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