Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert is a song-by-song re-creation of Dylan’s set list that night. Though the arrangements are largely faithful to the original concert, Marshall avoids the nostalgia trap of merely mimicking Dylan’s own phrasing and channels the mythic energy of the show,
There’s different emotions that pop out, and you never know which song is going to be a grand slam or which one’s going to be a total stinker. So it’s hit or miss, but it feels generally good, because I can tell that people are genuinely happy to be there.
When I was a kid, the holy grail for the white people was the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. And I noticed that whenever Bob Dylan would come on, there was a lot of commentary — nobody ever really said anything bad about the other people that I mentioned [above] or Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin. But Dylan made people fucking get into it,
I met him in 2007 in Paris. I was going to be flown [for a photo shoot] by this French luxury fashion [brand], and my stipulation was if they’d get me tickets to see Bob and meet him. And when I met him, it was me and him and [disgraced “Rosemary’s Baby”/”Chinatown” director] Roman Polanski — I had seen him on the way and grabbed him and said, “Bob would really want to see you again.”
Anyway, since I was like 22, I had been asking [Dylan’s manager] if I could open for him, but I never got to.
That show, during which Power closely followed the setlist of Dylan’s infamous tour, is memorialized with the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert. It’s out on November 10th via Domino, Consequence reports.
Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshallborn January 21, 1972 is better known by her stage name Cat Power She is an American singer-songwriter, musician and model. Cat Power was originally the name of her first band, but has become her stage name as a solo artist.
