Under her pseudonym Cat Power, Chan Marshall has been enthralling and occasionally infuriating listeners since the mid '90s with her poignant, pensive, sometimes self-consciously fragile brand of Southern-accented nouveau folk blues. While her flightiness is a matter of record and in the past she has been known to alienate even diehard fans with astonishingly brief live sets, she also has a dusty aching croon that pierces the heart without even seeming to try, and an elegant minimalist approach to composition that draws intelligently and emotionally from some of the most potent musical traditions. In the span of just a half-dozen releases, Marshall has carved out a personal niche for herself equal to that of any of the seminal singer-songwriters of the '70s, building a musical legacy whose reverberations will be heard for years to come.[More]

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