Jukebox
30 Jul 08
I received Cat Power’s album Jukebox for my birthday and listened to it this morning on the way to work. I love it already. The album is nearly all covers with my favourites (so far) being Silver Stallion and Chan Marshall’s (aka Cat Power) own song Metal Heart. I also really liked her version of Blue which is not surprising given that I love Joni Mitchell too. I am really looking forward to getting to know this album better. Here is Silver Stallion:
The full album listing is as follows (thanks to Wikipedia):
- “New York” (John Kander, Fred Ebb - Popularized by Liza Minnelli in 1977 and Frank Sinatra in 1980
- “Ramblin’ (Wo)man” (Hank Williams) - Originally released by Williams in 1953 and 1976
- “Metal Heart” (Chan Marshall) - Previous version appears on Cat Power’s 1998 album Moon Pix
- “Silver Stallion” (Lee Clayton) - First appears on Clayton’s 1978 album Border Affair; later popularized by The Highwaymen in 1990
- “Aretha, Sing One for Me” (J Harris, Eugene Williams) - Originally released by George Jackson in 1972[1]
- “Lost Someone” (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth) - Originally released by James Brown & the Famous Flames in 1961
- “Lord, Help the Poor and Needy” (Jessie Mae Hemphill) - Recorded by Jessie Mae Hemphill in either 1979 or the early 1980s, released on her 2004 album, Get Right Blues
- “I Believe in You” (Bob Dylan) - Originally released on Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming
- “Song to Bobby” (Chan Marshall, Matt Sweeney) - The sole original recording on the album
- “Don’t Explain” (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) - Originally released by Billie Holiday
- “A Woman Left Lonely” (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) - Originally released by Ella Brown and popularised by Janis Joplin on her (posthumous) 1971 album, Pearl
- “Blue” (Joni Mitchell) - Originally released by Mitchell on her 1971 album Blue
- “Breathless” (Nick Cave) - Originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2004 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
