It's not easy being Chan Marshall. Almost all visitors to Cat Power performances know this, which regularly degenerated into pitiful situations around an artist who would rather not be there. Often not at all, the now 46-year-old American confessed at the release of her tenth album. The first since 1996 not to appear on . The label would have disapproved of Wanderer due to the lack of hits and
… advised Marshall to listen carefully to 's . Fortunately, the album full of familiar sounding indie folk is now out. At , only supplemented with the glowing single Woman with . It could just be a hit. And otherwise the beautiful version of Stay, which, like so many covers, she bends to her will inimitably. Chan first heard Stay when she got on with a (obviously ex-) boyfriend. "There´s my girl", he said, and I thought he meant me. But when the song was over he turned off the car radio and I knew he was talking about . ' Poor Chan. (RME)more
