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Audio: Cat Power Covers Bob Dylan’s ‘Paths Of Victory’ – Live, 1999 + Dylan’s Version + More

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I like this cover of Bob Dylan’s “Paths of Victory” from a Cat Power performance at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA in 1999.

Dylan recorded the song in November 1962 at the Broadside offices in New York and it appeared on The Whitmark Demos: 1962 – 1964 Bootleg Series album.

He also recorded it on August 12, 1963 for The Times They Are A-Changin’, but of course didn’t include it on that album. That version made it onto the very first Bootleg Series set.

Here’s the version of “Paths Of Victory” Dylan cut for The Times They Are A-Changin’:

Check out the lyrics here.

Cat Power covering “Oh Sister” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”:

Plus Cat Power’s Dylan tribute, “Song To Bobby”:

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Audio: Listen to J Mascis and Cat Power Sing ‘Wide Awake’

Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis has a new album, Tied to a Star, out August 26, 2014.

One song on the album, the beautiful “Wide Awake,” finds Cat Power joining Mascis on vocals.

Check it out.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.

Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.

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Video: Eddie Vedder, Cat Power Sing ‘Tonight You Belong To Me’ in Portugal + ‘The Neede & The Damage Done’

Eddie Vedder & Cat Power.

After a couple of minutes of talking, Eddie Vedder and Cat Power sing “Tonight You Belong to Me” and then Vedder sings “The Needle and the Damage Done.”

This happened at this past weekend’s Super Bock Super Rock in Portugal.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.

Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.

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Listen to Cat Power Sing ‘Wish I Was Here’ Title Song Right Now

Cat Power sings the title track for Zach Braff’s new film, “Wish I Was Here.”

NPR has the story of how the song came together:

Here’s how it was made: Zach Braff, the creator of the film Wish I Was Here, gave an early version of the film to Coldplay’s Chris Martin. Braff told us via email that Martin got the band together to work on the song. “Chris had the idea that it would be sung by a woman. I thought that was a genius idea, because one of the things the film is about is a strong woman (Kate Hudson’s character) becoming the matriarch of her family. When Chris and I were talking, we both kind of simultaneously said, ‘Cat Power.’ I reached out to Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) and she and I met and really clicked. I set her up to watch the film in her apartment. The whole time she was watching she kept texting me all the different parts she was loving. She said yes the instant it was over.”

Read more and listen to “Wish I Was Here” at NPR right now.

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.

And if you’re interested the book is now available at Amazon.

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Video: Eddie Vedder Plays ‘The Needle and the Damage Done,’ ‘Last Kiss’ in Brazil + More

Tuesday night at Citibank Hall in São Paulo, Brazil, Eddie Vedder played Neil Young;s “The Needle and the Damage Done.”

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]

Cat Power’s “Good Woman” (partial):

“Last Kiss”:

The Ramones “I Believe in Miracles”:

The Beatles, “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”:

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Listen: Cat Power’s ‘Free,’ as Remixed for ‘Girls’ Soundtrack

Crazy Gigamesh remix of the awesome 2003 Cat Power track, “Free.”

Check out “Free (Remix),” which is included is on the new soundtrack for “Girls.”

Thanks Stereogum!

Watch: Cat Power Sings ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ for Apple Commercial

We get hear Cat Power sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” thanks to Apple, and Apple gets to have Chan Marshall singing in their commercial.

long version:

Short version:

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas:

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Deconstructing Station To Station “Nomadic Happening”

Cat Power on the train.
Cat Power on the train.

Earlier this week, while lunching at a steakhouse in Barstow, CA, Los Angeles artist and Station To Station mastermind Doug Aitken said his art project “is kind of a living organism… I like encounters; I like randomness and physicality.”

In a a strong feature in the New York Times today, writer Melena Ryzik does a great job of getting at the heart of what Station To Station is all about. The three week traveling art and music exhibit which ends today at Oakland’s 16th Station with, among other things, performances by No Age and Savages.

Read Ryzik’s story in the Times.

Video: Sky Ferreira And DIIV Cover Cat Power’s “Nude As The News”

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I’ve always dug Cat Power’s “Nude As The News,” which appeared on the artist’s 1996 album, What Would The Community Think. This past weekend at the  BasilicaSoundScape Festival in Hudson, New York, Sky Ferreira and DIIV performed a killer version of the song. Thanks to Pitchfork for hipping me to this. Photographer  Ryan McGinley was there and he shot a cell phone video of part of the performance. It’s cool.

Here’s Cat Power’s video of the song: