MSG!

[Moon Pix]

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/1190003264194610.xml&coll=1

Just want to say congratulations to Chan on playing Madison Square Garden. How many independent acts get to play a place that size? The girl done good.:):):)

[9000]

why is she the only artist in that article with her age listed?

[Lily]

http://www.nypress.com/blogx/display_blog.cfm?bid=19277797

Cat Power, by contrast, rose to the daunting challenge of playing the city’s biggest venue. Shy girl Chan Marshall, once infamous for withering before crowds, is now the indie-rock Christina Aguilera. She’s been reportedly clean and sober for a while now, and it showed. Backed by the Dirty Delta Blues Band—with Jim White of the Dirty 3 on sticks and Judah Bower on strings—she played like a bona fide blue-eyed soul sistah, and it probably would have bombed if she had never seen the kind of dark shit we know she has.

She even pulled off an impressionistic cover of “New York, New York” that sounded almost nothing like the original—and thus was awesome. This was the Cat Power show for people who hate shy, introspective indie songstresses like Cat Power. Meanwhile, the Cat Power cult was vindicated, as she has become the performer capable of matching the startling urgency of her best records.


http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/1190003264194610.xml&coll=1

Cat Power, a k a singer Chan Marshall, 35. Watching past Cat Power shows was like waiting at a crossroads for a train wreck, the singer mumbling through. But Marshall recorded a sublime, career-changing album, last year's "The Greatest," with a bunch of Memphis R&B vets, and she has beat back her demons to take advantage of it.

Blessed with super-model looks, the singer dressed down to match her shyly ambling stage presence; refreshingly, she doesn't try too hard to impress. But for white-girl soul, she takes some beating these days.

Marshall's singing is like flirting across a bar, a sequence of slurs and sighs that communicate more than any ersatz wailing. She voiced the Billie Holiday number "Don't Explain" as morning-after pillow talk, like someone who knows that a bad apology only doubles the sin.

Marshall's new band -- Dirty Delta Blues, with Dirty Three drummer Jim White and Blues Explosion guitarist Judah Bauer -- gave Muscle Shoals makeovers to the dreamy funk from "The Greatest" and made "Tracks of My Tears" sound like a Stones song. And instead of her usual art-house deconstruction of the Stones' "Satisfaction," Marshall and her boys stomped through it like they wrote the thing.