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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.
- "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 William)
- 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" (Traditional)
- 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, Judah Bauer)
- The sole original recording on the album, written by Chan Marshall, Matt Sweeney, Judah Bauer
- "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday)
- Originally released by Billie Holiday
- "A Woman Left Lonely" (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn)
- Originally released by Janis Joplin on her (posthumous) 1971 album, Pearl
- "Blue" (Joni Mitchell)
- Originally released by Mitchell on her 1971 album Blue
Limited Edition Bonus Disc
- "I Feel" (Dwayne Carter, Christopher Dorsey, Terius Gray, Byron Thomas, Tab Virgil, Jr.)
- Originally released by Hot Boys on their 1999 album Guerrilla Warfare
- "Naked, If I Want To" (Jerry Miller)
- Originally released by Moby Grape on their 1967 self-titled debut
- Previous version by Cat Power appears on 2000's The Covers Record
- "Breathless" (Nick Cave)Originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2004 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
- "Angelitos Negros" (Andres Eloy Blanco, Manuel Alvarez Maciste)
- Originally released by Roberta Flack on her 1969 album First Take
- "She's Got You" (Hank Cochran)
- Originally released by Patsy Cline on her 1962 album Sentimentally Yours
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