Cat Power
The Covers Record
Label:  Matador Records 
Date:  3/21/2000
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)    
      2.  
      Kingsport Town    
      3.  
      Troubled Waters    
      4.  
      Naked, If I Want To    
      5.  
      Sweedeedee    
      6.  
      In This Hole    
      7.  
      I Found a Reason (Velvet Underground)    
      8.  
      Wild Is the Wind    
      9.  
      Red Apples    
      10.  
      Paths of Victory (Bob Dylan)    
      11.  
      Salty Dog    
      12.  
      Sea of Love    
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      Chan Marshall devised the Cat Power moniker in order to put a degree of separation between herself and the often-twisted individuals who inhabit her songs. Here, she takes another step back while also taking a step forward. As the album title indicates, these are covers of other people's songs. Yet she sings them with no less intensity than if they were her own. Mick Jagger may have snarled the definitive "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," but Marshall takes a different tack. She removes the chorus and returns it as elegant slow blues. The Velvet Underground's "I Found a Reason" becomes a near-wordless cry. She relies only on her sufficient guitar picking and likeably amateurish piano tinkling, creating an isolated web not unlike that of Neil Young at his most deserted. Most appropriately, she covers "Red Apples" by Smog, whom she resembles in approach. Obscure (traditional and early) Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, and Michael Hurley tunes complement the bruised but not buried surroundings. --Rob O'Connor