Best known as猫力量，陈·马歇尔（Chan Marshall）的舞台名称已被许多建筑公司卡特彼勒（Caterpillar）及其卡车司机口号猫柴油动力（Cat Cat Diesel Power）归因于。但这是一个神话。她说：“猫力量意味着人们的力量，就像在爵士乐中一样，你说有人是一个很酷的猫。”
Marshall certainly is. With her latest album盖子这位总部位于迈阿密的50岁的年轻人以20年的Covers专辑提供了Capstone。力量一直在伤心欲绝，并制作了自己的坦率幻想民间摇滚品牌已有30多年的历史了。但是她认为，封面歌曲是尊重歌曲的终极表演。
Cover to cover
盖子came early in Marshall’s career. Raised in Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, the heartland of gospel, Americana and blues, she moved to New York in 1992. Having done her stage apprenticeship and soaked in the grunge-folk-jazz sounds of the city, she recorded her debut albumDear Sir，在1995年。它的特色是汤姆·怀特斯（Tom Waits）和这种惩罚。
她的第一张完整封面专辑，封面专辑，，，，arrived in 2000, replete with tracks by the石头，，，，迪伦，，，，Johnny Mathis and more. The second,自动点唱机，八年后随后，并以汉克·威廉姆斯（Hank Williams）的曲目为特色Joni Mitchell和Janis Joplin。
“I’ve always had to ask to put [covers albums] out because normally when you sign a record label contract, you deliver originals, because that’s how they make more money off you,” says Marshall, as candidly as you’d expect of her. “But since the first one I did in 1999, I’ve said that I would always do this if I’m lucky enough to stay alive. From the standards to rock’n’roll, blues, country to jazz and folk, everybody always covered everybody’s songs. Traditionally it was very normal.”
Between封面专辑，，，，自动点唱机以及马歇尔（Marshall）的其他八张录音室专辑，她穿越了上述所有类型等，她的幽默，心情，真诚的声音使听众通过破碎的精神，自我发现和女性奇迹的动荡而导致听众。尽管她努力保持私密性，但多年来，马歇尔在弗兰克（Frank）的采访中透露了她的成瘾和抑郁症的斗争。她是一个感觉到一切的女人。但是像许多伟大的艺术家一样，她找到了一种将这些黑暗的情绪和沉思转化为音乐的方法。
盖子但是，并不是真的很黑。它是忧郁和苦乐参半，但也很凄美，厚脸皮，异想天开。拉娜·德尔·雷伊（Lana del Rey）A White Mustangis given a rockier, earthier twist and, without that breathy, hyper-feminine Del Rey touch, the song can be heard anew. Along withIggy Pop的Endless Sea和尼克·凯夫（Nick Cave）的我有一个梦，乔，这是一个冲动的选择。
特殊成分
Back in December 2019 in Los Angeles’ Mant Studios, along with guitarist Adeline Jasso, drummer Alianna Kalaba, and Erik Paparazzi on guitar, bass and keys, Power experimented with variations, recording everything and doing as few takes as possible to maintain the energy between improvisation, intention and pure musical magic.
“当水平正确并且我们滚动时，我只是去了每个成员，然后才开始撰写。马歇尔说：“尝试一下，尝试这个，“八个小节”，“尝试这个16个小节，然后掉下来放慢脚步”。一旦她为每个乐队组成了部分，她就会进入声乐摊位。要录制的前几首歌 - 鲍勃·塞格（Bob Seger）Against the Wind，，，，Endless Sea和我有一个梦，乔– were done in just one to two takes.
“I had no idea what I was gonna do,” says Marshall. “I believe that improvisational spirit is really, really a special ingredient in creating anything, you know, in cooking, writing a poem. So these [songs] are recorded in probably eight minutes, total.”
在其他地方，您会听到Pogues的声音A Pair of Brown Eyes，这使马歇尔想起了一个心爱的朋友，他从癌症中逝世，以及尼科的These Days，马歇尔脱落了，以揭示其写作的美丽骨头。
During her early days in New York’s East Village, Marshall would commandeer the jukebox at old-school bar Mona’s and play The Replacements’这是常规的重复。她说：“我没有很多钱。”“我要喝酒。它花了一美元。我要把我的另一美元放在自动点唱机中，一遍又一遍地播放那首他妈的歌。”
现在，在舞台上表演并浸透了世界各地的音乐，她终于看到适合自己应对曲目盖子。“That song, I just felt like it was time.”
The powers that be
The entire盖子从录制到完成的过程，只需几个月。但是随后，马歇尔的创意大火被扑灭了，这张专辑被Covid-19和Marshall的祖母去世。
“盖子于2019年12月记录。”马歇尔说。“在一月份，我混合了它。然后在三月份，我飞往纽约，所以我的朋友（时尚摄影师Mario Sorrenti）可以为袖子，内夹克和夹克拍照。然后我飞往洛杉矶为他的电影拍肖恩·宾夕法尼亚（Sean Penn）国旗纪念日- 那是所有地狱崩溃的时候。因此，我飞回了家，只是锁了起来，[专辑]被设置在冰块中。”
那个地狱是大流行，马歇尔和儿子一起在迈阿密度过，他的教育时间表在很大程度上决定了妈妈的日常工作。两人会在早上walk狗，并在当地的停车场享用早餐，这是马歇尔祖母的桌布。“他五岁和六岁，”马歇尔谈到儿子时说。“我教他读书和做数学。他是班上最好的。我在数学上很恐怖。”
But it wasn’t all breakfast and arithmetic. There was also the collective misery of Trump’s presidency to bear, as well as Marshall’s own very personal loss.
“失去了我的祖母（就在大流行之前），她也像母亲一样，试图确保我的儿子不害怕并且感到安全……我对这张专辑不关心。[有]特朗普，然后民权运动开始真正爆炸 - 感谢上帝 - 在美国，所以所有这些部分和碎片都是我的重点。”
正是特朗普的仇恨言论首先启发了马歇尔唱弗兰克·海洋的Bad Religion在舞台上。在这里盖子，，，，her homage is poetic and theatrical like Ocean’s original but, in a woman’s voice, the story and the mood inevitably take on a different feel.
这是对原始作品崇敬的封面歌曲的美丽。可以重新使用原始内容（无论是和谐，旋律，节奏还是主题），以便封面独立存在，同时仍然鼓励听众重新审视原始内容，并可能会更加关注它。一旦大流行就可以改变专辑中的任何内容。她的做法一如既往地相信她的工作具有永恒的精神。
“我希望我写的音乐，我唱歌的歌曲……我觉得自己像艺术使我感动，触摸我并教我能保持头顶的头。要成为歌曲的工人，我不会轻描淡写。我觉得这是我这样做的礼物。If I hear a song that I loved, it doesn’t matter if I’m 10 or I’m 99, it’s still going to mean the same to me: the pulse, the energy, the vibration, the strength I get from it and the love I get from it is going to be the same.”
亮点之一盖子是不足的国家先驱小猫威尔斯的It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels。
“It’s the first feminist song I ever heard,” Marshall says. “She’s bitching at Hank [Thompson], you know, it’s a call-back to his song [生命的狂野一面]，那是如此的朋克摇滚，以至于那时就这样做了。”
这首歌是随机的发现，但是在这张专辑中找到家之前，它一直呆在马歇尔几十年来。
“我当时16岁或17岁，叔叔在北佐治亚州的山上有一个古董棚屋。我找到了这盒盒式磁带胶带，四个花了一美元或其他任何东西，我找到了小猫。我以为她的名字是如此迷人。我听着她的声音，就像一个山上女孩一样美丽。我只是爱上了她的许多封面。”
这首歌最初是由威尔斯（Wells）在1952年录制的，被乡村音乐中的一些知名人士播放了很多次。另外两首歌盖子are covers themselves too. The layers and respect paid to artists in choosing to cover their work is something that appeals to Marshall, whose grandmother adored Billie Holiday’s 1944 version of我会见你的。“地球上最好的音乐是其他人的封面。”
不打直
她从2006年在孟菲斯捡起的40美元的尼龙弦吉他，随后演奏流浪者到Fender和Danelectroguitars she’s accustomed to, Marshall is an eclectic player. Though she admits that she’s not technically proficient, she knows how to coax what she wants from an instrument, whether through strumming or using her voice as a guide for her studio bassists and guitarists.
“When I sing other people’s songs, because I don’t know how to play guitar or piano technically, I don’t know the chords, I don’t know the notes,” she says. “Any cover that I do is not gonna sound straight. It’s gonna sound fucked-up and weird because I only know how to play guitar the way that I play it.”
Marshall still writes her songs on a guitar or piano, and on tour she’ll typically play her 1952 Danelectro and forgo the more vintage guitars she loves.
“For the live show, [I’ll play] a 1952 Danelectro and I’ll usually play a Fender Twin. I prefer the vintage but because they always crap out on tour, we’ll see what happens.”
至于选秀权？忘了它。
“我用拇指刺痛，这就是我所做的。”
For the love of song
Though the trio of covers albums is now complete, Marshall isn’t done with translating other artists’ songs through her own Cat Power dialect.
她沉思说：“我认为，由于MTV，《星报》和新的热门歌曲的奇观，新的热门歌手，唱片公司，经理和出版公司都想要新的新鲜血。”“封面的传统已被埋葬。但是，如果我能继续做自己的事情，我将永远这样做。我会一直这样做，因为如果我不喜欢歌曲，我不会成为歌手。”
盖子现在通过Domino Records。