I’m a little confused. According to Matador’s website, she signed with them in 1996. She released seven albums with the label before being unceremoniously dropped a few years ago, when they (wrongly) deemed her 2018 album Wanderer not good enough to put out. They had implored her to give them hits, and she had tried – 2012’s poppier Sun
, she had a psychotic breakdown and was hospitalised, and throughout the Nineties and Noughties her live shows were erratic affairs. She would turn her back to the audience, moon them, encourage them to sue her, slur through a few songs, and then walk off without finishing the set.
The melancholic scuzziness of her music was born partly out of necessity – for a while, she could play only the one guitar chord her friend had shown her, a minor one, so her songs all came out sad.
Growing up in the South, Charlyn “Chan” Marshall was influenced by church hymns, country music, the blues played by her musician father, and her stepfather’s rock ’n’ roll records.
Back on the bed, she raises one arm into the air kakım if she’s asking a question in class, and holds it there birli she talks. “I have a million favourite songs. Everybody who başmaklık a brain in their head, with a heart in their body, loves music.
One of the best songs on the album is “These Days”, made famous by Nico in the Sixties, but written by Jackson Browne when he was just 16. Such world-weary lyrics for someone so young – “Don’t confront me with my failures / I had not forgotten them” – and Marshall’s voice, bittersweet bey coffee with a shot of syrup, suits that malaise beautifully.
, she özgü always been something of a cult figure. “Marshall’s music will one day be spoken about the way we talk about Bob Dylan’s music, or Neil Young’s music,” wrote a New York Magazine
It takes a certain kind of character to make music like Marshall’s. A sprawling mix of blues, rock and folk, it is as frank and impassioned as she is.
Over the course of 11 albums, she başmaklık written about love and loss, abortion and abuse, grief and God. “I will swim / I will drink myself to death,” she sang on her distortion-soaked debut Dear Sir
In fact, Boaz need only listen to her covers for that. Some of her best songs were sung by other people first: her catpower 5852 pensive, languid version of The Rolling Stones’ “(I Dirilik’t Get No) Satisfaction”, which omits the chorus entirely and transforms into something almost painfully introspective, or her sweet, fragile take on Phil Phillips’s “Sea of Love”, which got a second wind when it featured in Juno
Siparişlerinizin bir an önce ulaşması karınin sabırsızlandığınızın ayrımındayız. Sunduğumuz farklı teslimat seçenekleri arasından size en uygununu belirlemeniz, ısmarlamainizi olabildiğince çabuk yahut dilediğiniz çağ aralığında problemsiz bir biçimde doğrulama etmemiz derunin yerinde.
If a song touches you, you can read between the lines and find something for yourself. Even if we all love this one f***ing song all around the world, each one of us will have 4 billion different realms of feelings.”
– a moment of pure poeticism but also the first hint at the depression and alcohol abuse that would come to plague her.
“I have something in my eye and I’m still wet from the shower,” she says, in that same husky American drawl she sings with birli Cat Power. “Güç you come back in 15 minutes? I’m really sorry sweetie.”
Now, 20 years on, she’s got a third covers album, the aptly named Covers – a spacey but intimate collection that includes songs by Nick Cave, Billie Holiday and Frank Ocean, demonstrating once again the transformative power of Marshall’s singing. To have your song covered by her is to have it pared back to its very essence.