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Recorded quickly with bassist Tim Foljahn and drummer Steve Shelley from her previous album, WHAT WOULD THE COMMUNITY THINK? and released quietly on Shelley's part-time Smells Like label, MYRA LEE isn't the tossed-off marking-time effort you might expect. Chan (pronounced Shawn) Marshall's acoustic guitar-based tunes are always rather sparse, and this is by far her most skeletal album, the near-subliminal backing placing her clear voice and disquieting lyrics front and center throughout.
Opening with the quiet desperation of "Enough," the bleakness continues on the blues-inflected "We All Die" and a simply heartbreaking solo rendition of Hank Williams' "I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You." It's not all slit-your-wrists material--"Not What You Want" and the rueful "Wealthy Man" are more dismissive than anguished--but MYRA LEE is a stark and powerful folk-based acoustic pop album.
Recording information: Mott Street Space (12/1994).
Editor: Oliver Strauss.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Steve Shelley; Tim Foljahn; Chan Marshall.
Cat Power: Chan Marshall (vocals); Tim Foljahn, Steve Shelley.
Audio Mixer: Edward Douglas.
Option (7-8/96, p.96) - "...Marshall's understated acoustic songs burn with a kind of hazy, smoldering glow....There's nothing polished about this album, and nothing particularly pretty, but its raw emotion works on you..." Myra Lee Review
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Purchase Myra Lee CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Cat Power What Would The Community Think CD (1996)
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1996's WHAT WOULD THE COMMUNITY THINK? Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall's second album under the name Cat Power, finds the North Carolinian at lo-fi maverick Doug Easley's Memphis studio, her soft, engagingly shy voice and delicate acoustic guitar supported by Easley's pedal steel and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley's percussion. ...
| | Cat Power Moon Pix CD (1998)
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Principally recorded at Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne, Australia in January 1998.
Somewhere between the narcotic stillness of Mazzy Star and the quiet desperation of Lisa Germano, Cat Power's MOON PIX is a compelling, often powerful album of mostly-acoustic songs delivered in Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall's clear, measured voice. Restraint is key here, although troubling images and a distinct undercurrent of unease percolate ...
| | Cat Power Covers Record CD (2000)
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Cat Power's (Chan Marshall) disarmingly naive music hits you in the gut with its bare simplicity. Her hurt, vibrato-less tone is pure, velvety, and completely understated. In its simplicity, it seems to convey all the sadness of the world--like a leafless tree silhouetted against slate-gray sky heavy with rain clouds. Marshall accompanies herself on guitar, piano, or autoharp. Her arrangements are minimal--hypnotic, repetitive riffs with chords that barely change. When she hits a bass note, the impact is jarring. Cat Power's music is sleep with all its troubled dreams.
On THE COVERS RECORD, Marshall explores the work of other songwriters. She deconstructs ...
| | Cat Power Dear Sir CD (1995)
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| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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| | Tony Joe White Lake Placid Blues CD (1995) Import
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| | Wayne Kramer's Beyond Cyberpunk CD (2001)
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Beyond Cyberpunk was compiled and co-produced by punk rock stalwart Wayne Kramer, who wanted to promote a few alternate voices of the genre. Featuring both pioneers and voices that followed, Beyond Cyberpunk is an interesting and surprisingly literate collection that illustrates just how wide-ranging the spirit of punk rock is. The album kicks off with Mudhoney's "Inside Job." A herking, jerking Mark Arm masterpiece, the song was originally part of Since We've Become Translucent, the band's 2002 "comeback" album, and is the famous fruit of a late-night Mudhoney jam session with Kramer that convinced the legendary Seattle combo to keep on keeping on. The late Dee Dee Ramone checks in with "Bad Little Go-Go Girl," and Kramer himself handles "Crawling Outta the Jungle," which, despite its hokey horror movie vibe, still features a strutting guitar hook in the chorus.
Of the newer material, Downset's furious "Cold Blue Coma" fares best, tracing as it does punk's long, strange trip into a brightly lit post-hardcore world where rap and metal eat freely at the same table. Meanwhile, Cooter's hyperactive "Passtime" is the requisite pop-punk number, but it seems like a placeholder on a compilation that is overwhelmingly strong. Besides tracks from the ever-avant-garage Pere Ubu, a reunited Richard Hell & the Voidods, and ...
| | Eddie Fisher Every Song I Have Is Your/Hits CDs (2004) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Black Box Recorder Passionoia CD (2003)
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One thing Black Box Recorder has going for them is that one needn't "get" them in order to enjoy the records they make. They work on many levels. On the cover of Passionoia, bikini-clad singer Sarah Nixey blissfully reclines poolside on a sunny day with a drink in hand. A lifeless body floats in that pool. For those who don't realize it's a reference to a party gone wrong that was thrown by English television celebrity Michael Barrymore, it still alludes to what can be expected from the record: Increasingly ornate arrangements as a significant move toward making contemporary dance-pop, ...
| | Lord Byron D Revolution People CD (2006)
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| | Brian Gale North To Alaska (And Heartaches Along The Way) CD (2004)
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| | Bluegrass Tribute To The Shins CD (2006)
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Tributee: The Shins.
| | Julien Clerc Beste Van CD (2005) (Import)
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