Cat Power shares new songs "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Like A Rolling Stone" from forthcoming new album

Cat Power

Shares new songs “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like A Rolling Stone”

Brings Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Albert Hall Concert to NYC’s Carnegie Hall next February
Album out November 10th
Performing on Later… with Jools Holland this Saturday

Today, renowned singer-songwriter Cat Power shares two more songs from the forthcoming album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert(out November 10th) showcasing her distinct and evocative takes on “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like A Rolling Stone”. Alongside the new songs, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall, is also pleased to announce a Valentine’s Day performance at America’s premiere concert hall, Carnegie Hall. The show is a 15-song recreation of Dylan’s 1966 acoustic and electric performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall and is a companion to her album.
 
Stream “Mr. Tambourine Man” here.
Stream “Like A Rolling Stone” here.
 
Recorded November 5th 2022 at London’s vaunted Royal Albert Hall, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert sees Marshall paying tribute to Bob Dylan with a complete live reimagining of his legendary performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966. Long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg, the original performance saw Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing the ire of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock ‘n’ roll. Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert both lovingly honors Dylan’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs, including the recently released “She Belongs to Me” and “Ballad of a Thin Man,” both available everywhere now.
 
Additionally, Cat Power will be performing “Mr. Tambourine Man” with Jools Holland on BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland on October 28th.
 
“More than the work of any other songwriter,” says Chan Marshall, “Dylan’s songs have spoken to me, and inspired me since I first began hearing them at 5 years old.”
 
Cat Power will mark the new album’s arrival with the show’s first-ever U.S. performance of three sold-out West Coast performances following concerts in London and at the Sydney Opera House. “Now we know how much applause it takes to lift the Albert Hall,” wrote The Times of the debut performance, while The Telegraph summed it up as “pure celebration” in its 4-out-of-5-starred review. Sydney’s Time Out praised “the sheer transcendence” of this spring’s Opera House performance, hailing the experience as “spiked with a deep and enduring sense of timelessness, made all the more potent through Power’s pure vocals. We could’ve been anywhere, at any point in history, anywhere in the solar system…Magnificent.” The Carnegie Hall show will be no less special, and Dylan himself hasn’t headlined the venue performing this material since 1965.
 
There are few voices more deeply embedded in the iconography and mythology of American indie rock than that of Chan Marshall. Under the musical nom de plume of Cat Power, Marshall has released music for nearly 25 years now and her prowess as a songwriter, a producer, and most notably – as a voice – has only grown more influential with time. Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert marks the latest in a series of albums that see Marshall reimagining classics from the American Songbook, rock ‘n’ roll history, and beyond, including 2000’s The Covers Record, 2008’s Jukebox, and 2022’s Covers, the latter of which was hailed by Pitchfork as “her widest ranging yet, illustrating her talent for radical reinvention.”
 
Now Cat Power recreates Dylan’s epochal 1966 concert – a 15-song set featuring classics like “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,“ “Like A Rolling Stone” as well as several cuts from Blonde on Blonde including “Just Like A Woman” – with both heartfelt reverence and a deep understanding of the delicate nature of song interpretation. Like the original concert (and all of Dylan’s 1966 world tour), Marshall kept the first half of her set entirely acoustic, then went electric for the second half with the help of a full band including guitarist Arsun Sorrenti, bassist Erik Paparozzi, multi-instrumentalists Aaron Embry (harmonica, piano) and Jordan Summers (organ, Wurlitzer), and drummer Josh Adams. In her own rendition of that historic night, Marshall inhabits each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy.
 
“I had and still have such respect for the man who crafted so many songs that helped develop conscious thinking in millions of people, helped shape the way they see the world,” says Marshall. “So even though my hands were shaking so much I had to keep them in my pockets, I felt real dignity for myself. It felt like a real honor for me to stand there.”
 
Upcoming live dates
6th November 2023 – Troubadour, LA – sold out
7th November 2023 - Troubadour, LA – sold out
8th November 2023 – The Palace Theater, LA – sold out
14th February 2024 – Carnegie Hall, NYC - Tickets on sale on Friday 27th Oct
 
Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert is available to pre-order on DomMart-exclusive clear-coloured double vinyl, Indies-exclusive white-coloured double vinyl, standard double vinyl, double CD and digitally. Pre-order: DomMart | Digital
 
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