Sunday, February 24, 2008

// 2008 Cat Power - Jukebox (Limited Edition)


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Jukebox is the eighth album by American singer/songwriter Chan Marshall, also known by her stage name, Cat Power. It was released on January 22, 2008 on Matador Records. A limited-edition silver foil deluxe package was also released containing a bonus disc with five extra songs.

The album is comprised almost entirely of cover songs, save for "Song To Bobby" and "Metal Heart" ("Metal Heart" was previously recorded and released in 1998). This is Marshall's second record of cover songs; her first, The Covers Record, was released in 2000.

  1. "New York" (John Kander, Fred Ebb)
  2. "Ramblin' (Wo)man" (Hank Williams)
    • Originally released by Williams in 1953 and 1976
  3. "Metal Heart" (Chan Marshall)
    • Previous version appears on Cat Power's 1998 album Moon Pix
  4. "Silver Stallion" (Lee Clayton)
    • First appears on Clayton's 1978 album Border Affair; later popularized by The Highwaymen in 1990
  5. "Aretha, Sing One for Me" (J Harris, Eugene William)
    • Originally released by George Jackson in 1972[1]
  6. "Lost Someone" (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth)
  7. "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" (Traditional)
    • Recorded by Jessie Mae Hemphill in either 1979 or the early 1980s, released on her 2004 album, Get Right Blues
  8. "I Believe in You" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "Song to Bobby" (Chan Marshall, Matt Sweeney, Judah Bauer)
  10. "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday)
    • Originally released by Billie Holiday
  11. "A Woman Left Lonely" (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn)
  12. "Blue" (Joni Mitchell)
    • Originally released by Mitchell on her 1971 album Blue

Limited Edition Bonus Disc

  1. "I Feel" (Dwayne Carter, Christopher Dorsey, Terius Gray, Byron Thomas, Tab Virgil, Jr.)
  2. "Naked, If I Want To" (Jerry Miller)
  3. "Breathless" (Nick Cave)
    Originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2004 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
  4. "Angelitos Negros" (Andres Eloy Blanco, Manuel Alvarez Maciste)
  5. "She's Got You" (Hank Cochran)

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