Last November, Cat Power recreated Bob Dylan’s 1966 “Royal Albert Hall” present at Royal Albert Hall in London. At the time, that present marked Dylan’s then-controversial transition to performing electrical. (The unique present truly befell at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall, however for years it was often called the “Royal Albert Hall” live performance due to a mislabeled bootleg.) Now, Cat Power will launch that tribute as a stay album.
Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert will probably be out November 10 and options 15 tracks, together with two you may hear in the present day: “She Belongs To Me” and “Ballad Of A Thin Man.”
Opening up about what Bob Dylan has meant to her, Cat Power (Chan Marshall) says in a launch, “More than the work of any other songwriter, Dylan’s songs have spoken to me, and inspired me since i first began hearing them at 5 years old.”
She provides of “She Belongs To Me”: “When singing ‘She Belongs To Me’ in the past, sometimes I turned it into a first-person narrative – ’I am an artist, I don’t look back.’ I really identified with it like that. But for the show at Royal Albert Hall, I, of course, sang it the way it was originally written – with the respect for the composition…and the great composer.”
About “Ballad Of A Thin Man,” Marshall says: “It was something impulsive. I wasn’t expecting the audience to recreate their part of the original show as well, but then I wanted to set the record straight – in a way, Dylan is a deity to all of us who write songs.”
Listen to each tracks beneath, and look out for Marshall performing her Bob Dylan set on the Troubadour in Los Angeles on November 6 and seven.
TRACKLIST:
01 “She Belongs To Me”
02 “Fourth Time Around”
03 “Visions Of Johanna”
04 “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
05 “Desolation Row”
06 “Just Like A Woman”
07 “Mr. Tambourine Man”
08 “Tell Me, Momma”
09 “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)”
10 “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”
11 “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”
12 “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
13 “One Too Many Mornings”
14 “Ballad Of A Thin Man”
15 “Like A Rolling Stone”
