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Cat Power sets up tour with Memphis connection
After recording her upcoming album "The Greatest" in Memphis, with Memphis musicians, singer/songwriter Chan Marshall has, fittingly enough, scheduled several concert dates with the Memphis Rhythm Band backing her.
Marshall--better known as Cat Power --will tour major cities on both the West and East coasts with an all-star assemblage of sorts of Memphis session musicians, including several who appear on the new album. The short tour will kick off with a Feb. 14 show in New York.
Marshall recorded her upcoming Cat Power LP, entitled "The Greatest," in Memphis this past spring with a group of veteran session musicians including members of the Hi Records house band and Steve Potts, onetime drummer for Booker T and the MGs.
"Playing with these guys makes it a more joyful, country kind of thing," Marshall recently told Rolling Stone Magazine. "Just to have them sitting around, telling me stories about Ike and Tina [Turner], was really amazing."
The album is scheduled to hit stores Jan. 24. Cat Power's previous studio album was 2003's "You Are Free."
The first single from the new album, also titled "The Greatest," is available as a free MP3 download on Marshall's record label website. Matador has also released a vinyl-only single of "The Greatest" b/w "Hate," available from music retailers for 99 cents.
