Covered By Cat

 

It was Drew over at Twitter who first drew my attention to the recent album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert here. It is quite magnificent.

It was a documentary by Andy Kershaw which first made me aware of the original concert which was actually recorded at Manchester Free Trade Hall. This was the somewhat infamous concert with Bob and the band playing acoustic on the first set and then playing an electric set along with The Hawks leading to the famous cry of Judas from the audience. This was subsequently released as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 in 1998

Cat faithfully and brilliantly re-enacts the entire album track by track.

This got me thinking of a previous covers album by her from 2000 on the Matador label which was imaginatively but correctly called The Covers Record here

12 tracks covering songs from the likes of the Rolling Stones, Moby Grape, Velvet Underground and Smog.

There are also two Dylan numbers - the traditional Kingsport Town and Paths of  Victory.

I've included a couple below.

I swithered about posting something from the current album but figured that it will be available on Spotify and other streaming services so decided to go for it. The couple of dozen hardy souls who read this won't make that much difference,

Cat Power - (I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction

Cat Power -Paths of Victory

Cat Power - Desolation Row