Cat Power's wistful reading of "I'll Be Seeing You" is off her forthcoming Covers album out January 14th.
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Cat Power, the singer/songwriter/producer Chan Marshall, previews her forthcoming album Covers (Domino) with a fresh interpretation of Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" accompanied by a music video. Directed by Greg Hunt, the clip nods to Lady Day as Marshall sings behind a classic 1940’s-style Shure microphone in a cabaret hall evoking the jazz legend’s beautifully restrained vocals.
“I’ll Be Seeing You” was inspired by recent losses surrounding Marshall’s inner circle of life—including Sun collaborator Philippe Zdar, who tragically passed in 2019.
“When people who you love have been taken from you, there’s always a song that holds their memory in your mind,” Marshall ruminates while talking about the importance that the cover itself holds in her heart. “It’s a conversation with those on the other side, and it’s really important for me to reach out to people that way.”
You can pre-order Cat Power's Covers album right here. Watch the video for "I'll Be Seeing You" followed by Billie Holiday's 1944 version for Commodore backed by Eddie Heywood's Orchestra below.
Watch the new video for Cat Power's cover of Ryan Gosling's "Pa Pa Power" followed by the original Dead Man's Bones version.
Here's the scoop...
Cat Power, the singer/songwriter/producer Chan Marshall, has shared “Pa Pa Power,” a new preview of her forthcoming album Covers out January 14 via Domino. Along with the music video for “Pa Pa Power” - Marshall’s rendition of the Dead Man’s Bones song - she has announced her return to the road with a full band headlining 32-date tour that will cross the US (with one Canadian date in Toronto) from January to May.
Watch the Greg Hunt-directed video for “Pa Pa Power” below, filmed at The Echo in Los Angeles https://smarturl.it/PaPaPowerYT
On deciding to record “Pa Pa Power,” Marshall says: “I started playing this solo in 2012 (originally more dissonant and trance-y), when the Occupy Wall street protests were going on. Occupy was bunkering down and saying, ‘This shit's fucking fucked up.’ And helping citizens be a voice in their local government. They got a lot of good things done, but the American media killed the movement. I felt like this song was relative to that. The American media has always penalized any sort of social progressiveness and is always the first to express conservative rhetoric against something that is beneficial to the nation. I’d open with this song on the 2013 China tour. ‘Burn the streets, burn the cars.’”
Marshall announced the hotly-anticipated Covers in early October with a performance of Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion” and an interview on The Late Late Show With James Corden. She also shared her “personal favorite,” a cover of the Pogues’ “A Pair Of Brown Eyes.”
Produced in its entirety by Marshall, Covers also features reimaginings of recordings by Nick Cave ("I Had A Dream Joe"), Iggy Pop ("Endless Sea"), The Replacements ("Here Comes A Regular"), Billie Holiday ("I'll Be Seeing You"), Lana Del Rey ("White Mustang"), Bob Seger ("Against The Wind"), Jackson Browne ("These Days"), and Kitty Wells ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), plus an updated rendition of the Cat Power song “Hate” from The Greatest (2006), retitled “Unhate” for the album.
The 2022 tour includes 32 shows including a Toronto stop at The Danforth Music Hall on April 19th. See the full list of upcoming tour dates following the video clips below.
