I saw her live at the Canopy Club in Champaign IL right before The Greatest dropped. It was a strange and beautiful experience, she came out into the Audience for a bit to watch the opening act and everyone was afraid to speak to her, then when she performed it was the most hushed concert I have ever attended, by this time in her career she had developed a bit of a reputation for being a temperamental performer and it was as though the audience was afraid if they made any noise outside of a polite golf clap that they may spook her from the stage and TBH based out her performance that evening we all probably were in the right mindset as he was definitely going through some shit, while her voice and playing were top notch her confidence was completely shot, she apologized after every song and stoped mid song apologize and then restart the song from the beginning on two or three separate occasions. All that being said she put on a hell of set, played almost all of The Greatest (and The White Sox, who were playing a non-clenching World Series game Won!!) it was a memorable amazing evening.Cat Power would be a great choice if it’s not Dylan. Although every time I have tried to see her live, it hasn’t quite worked out...first time it was a free show back in college where she had a double billing with The Blind Boys of Alabama. They were incredible and then Cat Power came on 30+ minutes late, played half a song, messed up a chord, said “sorry this fucking sucks. I don’t know why anybody wants to hear this” and walked off the stage. People waited around but she never came back on. Then another time she just never showed up. Around that time everyone seemed to just pass her off as an eccentric diva. Nobody really knew what was going on behind the scenes but she was suffering from deep depression. I remember she did a pretty open interview with Spin magazine around that time:
The Spin Interview: Cat Power - SPIN
What follows is an unabridged version of the Cat Power interview that appears in our December issue. Chan Marshall does not look troubled. On this latewww.spin.com
there’s some pretty interesting stuff in that article about the recording of The Greatest:
You recorded The Greatest in Memphis. What was it like to work with soul legends like Mabon “Teenie” Hodges?
The recording process was intense — you know, white girl from Georgia asking these legendary musicians if they’d be interested in recording “Try Me,” by James Brown. Teenie would be like, “Now what key is the song in?” And I’d be like, “I don’t know anything about keys.” And he’d be like, “Okay, just play it.” I’d play and he’d mark down the Nashville numbers system — that’s the way poor people learn to play because [takes on a deep-South accent] they don’t have no con-serrr-va-tory. And Teenie would be like, “See that note you played? That’s the key. It’s always gonna come back to that note.”
I haven’t really checked out a ton of her music after The Greatest but that album was really solid and I think she’s really talented.
The current (cheap) pressing is common but not much to write home about, it also has alternate Artwork than what was originally released. There is also currently no colored wax pressings of the album that I am aware. Also other previous indie ROTM’s (Dirty Projectors, Phoenix, Flaming Lips) were readily available prior to VMP choosing them for their ROTM. There are still 2008 RTI pressed Kevin Grey cut pressing with the original artwork floating around at a reasonalbe price on the secondary market but they are becoming more scarce. I would be excited, if like the Flaming Lips they were to also offere up some represses of Moon Pix and You Are Free.
Probably not that because it's already guessed on Reddit apparently and no one has guessed that
yeah thats what i said.... it hasn't been guessed on reddit and thus it wasn't in the running
Yeah, but Leroy Hodges played on Waiting For Little Milton.
But why make your one chance of a bob Dylan ROTM modern times instead of any of the other classics he has even 2 albums before
