Tag Archives: Cat Power

Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come Easy Go

On November 10, 2008, “Naïve Records” label released “Easy Come, Easy Go”, the 18th Marianne Faithfull album. It was recorded in 2008, “Sear Sound Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Hal Willner.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Barry Reynolds – guitars
  • Marc Ribot – acoustic and electric guitars
  • Keith Richards – vocals, guitar
  • Sean Lennon – vocals, guitars
  •  Gil Goldstein – piano, accordion, arrangements, string direction
  • Brian Mitchell – piano
  • Steve Weisberg – piano, electric piano, celesta, arrangements, conducting
  • Rob Burger – piano, organ
  • Greg Cohen – bass
  • Jim White – drums
  • Joey Baron – drums
  • Art Baron – bass recorder, trombone
  • Doug Wieselman – clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  • Ken Peplowski – bass clarinet
  • Marty Ehrlich – bass clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Lenny Pickett – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, sarrusophone, double bass
  • Steven Bernstein – glockenspiel, mellophone, alto brass, trumpet
  • Maxin Moston, Rob Moose – violin
  • Warren Ellis – violin, electric violin
  • Michael Nicholas – viola
  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello
  • Chan Marshall – vocals
  • Nick Cave – vocals
  • Antony Hegarty – vocals
  • Rufus Wainwright – vocals
  • Jarvis Cocker – vocals
  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle – backing vocals
  • Cat Power – backing vocals
  • Jean-Baptiste Mondino– art direction, photography

Track listing:

  1. Down from Dover – Dolly Parton
  2. Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
  3. Solitude – Duke Ellington
  4. The Crane Wife 3 – The Decemberists
  5. Easy Come, Easy Go – Bessie Smith
  6. Children of Stone – Espers
  7. How Many Worlds – Brian Eno
  8. In Germany Before the War – Randy Newman
  9. Ooh Baby Baby – Smokey Robinson
  10. Sing Me Back Home – Merle Haggard
  11. Salvation – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  12. Black Coffee – Sarah Vaughan
  13. The Phoenix – Judee Sill
  14. Dear God Please Help Me – Morrissey
  15. Kimbie – Jackson C. Frank
  16. Many a Mile to Freedom – Traffic
  17. Somewhere (A Place for Us) – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
  18. Flandyke Shore – traditional

Cat Power: Moon Pix

On September 22, 1998, “Matador” label released “Moon Pix”, the fourth Cat Power album. It was recorded November 1996 – January 1998, at “Sing Sing Studio” in Melbourne, Australia, and was produced by Matt Voigt.

Personnel:

  • Chan Marshall – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Mick Turner – guitar, engineer
  • Belinda Woods – flute
  • Jim White – drums
  • Andrew Entsch – bass
  • Matt Voigt – engineer
  • Roe Ethridge – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chan Marshall, except where noted.

  1. American Flag
  2. He Turns Down
  3. No Sense
  4. Say
  5. Metal Heart
  6. Back of Your Head
  7. Moonshiner
  8. You May Know Him
  9. Colors and the Kids
  10. Cross Bones Style
  11. Peking Saint

Cat Power: What Would The Community Think

On September 10, 1996, “Matador” label released “What Would the Community Think”, the third Cat Power studio album. It was recorded in February 1996, at “Easley Studios” in Memphis, Tennessee, and was produced by Steve Shelley.

Personnel:

  • Chan Marshall – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Tim Foljahn – guitar
  • Doug Easley – pedal steel
  • Steve Shelley – drums, xylophone

Track listing:

All tracks by Chan Marshall, except where noted.

  1. In This Hole
  2. Good Clean Fun
  3. What Would the Community Think
  4. Nude as the News
  5. They Tell Me
  6. Taking People
  7. The Fate of the Human Carbine – Peter Jefferies
  8. King Rides By
  9. Bathysphere – Bill Callahan
  10. Water & Air
  11. Enough
  12. The Coat Is Always On

Cat Power: You Are Free

On February 18, 2003, “Matador” label released “You Are Free”, the sixth Cat Power album. It was recorded in 2002, and was produced by Chan Marshall.

Personnel:

  • Chan Marshall – vocals, guitars, piano
  • Warren Ellis – violin
  • Dave Grohl – bass, drums
  • Eddie Vedder – vocals
  • David Campbell – string arrangements
  • Maggie & Emma – vocals
  • Adam Kasper – recording, mixing
  • Rick Fisher – mastering
  • Mark Borthwick – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chan Marshall, except where noted.

  1. I Don’t Blame You
  2. Free
  3. Good Woman
  4. Speak for me
  5. Werewoll – Michael Hurley
  6. Fool
  7. He War
  8. Shaking paper
  9. Babydoll
  10. Maybe Not
  11. Names
  12. Half of You
  13. Keep on Runin’ – John Lee Hooker
  14. Evolution