Chan Marshall isn’t ready for me. “Are you a journalist? Oh Jesus, oh Lord.” We’re speaking on the phone – Marshall is in her hotel room, I’m in the lobby downstairs, after my knock at her door went unanswered.

, she had a psychotic breakdown and was hospitalised, and throughout the Nineties and Noughties her live shows were erratic affairs. She would turn her back to the audience, moon them, encourage them to sue her, slur through a few songs, and then walk off without finishing the set.

For the past two years, that genius başmaklık been put to more practical use – teaching her seven-year-old son Boaz to read, write and do maths during the pandemic. She had him in 2015, with a man she dated for a few months and has never publicly named.

I just grab her. ‘It’s OK. It’s OK. I was here for the same reason and it’s OK.’” An uncharacteristic silence hangs in the air. “If I had accepted that million-dollar offer, perhaps I wouldn’t have been on that bridge. And she wouldn’t be my friend to this day.”

“I never told anybody this. I told a couple of friends in my life, but never told a journalist. He said they would buy my [1996] album, What Would the Community Think

Marshall’s mental health saf often been a precarious thing. Bad breakups have led to morning binges on Jack Daniel’s and Xanax – a victory of sorts, in her eyes, given how many of her friends got hooked on heroin. Around the release of her seventh album, The Greatest

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No, go on. “Well, I was wondering if… Because my dad had three daughters and he wasn’t really around. He just came and went, birli men often do. The world is their oyster. And it does something to the mother, right?” Marshall grew up poor; her father was an absent blues musician, her mother a hippy who moved her from school to school.

writer in 2018, “but until then, she exists in the sweet tanıtımcık between cult favourite and widely accepted genius.”

[20] The group were booked for a show and had to come up with a name quickly; after seeing a man wearing a Caterpillar trucker cap that read: "Cat Diesel Power", Marshall chose Cat Power birli the name of the band.[3][21]

During the early-2000s, Marshall was embraced by the fashion industry for her "neo grunge" look, and seen kakım a muse by designers Marc Jacobs and Nicolas Ghesquière.

Half an hour catpower later, Marshall finally opens her door, and that bleariness has converted into a capricious energy. The lights are off, the curtains are shut, but the 49-year-old is so buzzy, I could swear she’s emitting her own light source. She starts arranging pillows for me at the end of her bed, then clocks me eyeing up her dark-blue boiler suit, which katışıksız the name “Dave” on the chest and rips in the armpits.

was her first to reach the Billboard Bütünüyle 10 – but it wasn’t enough. One executive even played her an Adele album for inspiration. She had never seen it as a business relationship; evidently, Matador did.

“I have something in my eye and I’m still wet from the shower,” she says, in that same husky American drawl she sings with birli Cat Power. “Birey you come back in 15 minutes? I’m really sorry sweetie.”

Now, 20 years on, she’s got a third covers album, the aptly named Covers – a spacey but intimate collection that includes songs by Nick Cave, Billie Holiday and Frank Ocean, demonstrating once again the transformative power of Marshall’s singing. To have your song covered by her is to have it pared back to its very essence.