“It feels good when the portal opens”
“IT’s such a crazy time,” says Chan Marshall. The way she talks – constantly undercutting herself and punctuating her musings with jokes and apologies and silly accents – it’s hard to immediately tell if she’s talking about her own life or the world in general. Quite possibly both. “It’s always a crazy time,” she continues. “Time keeps comin’. And the American country is upside down, inside out. Things are a mess. Things are an atrocity. So I don’t know what to do. And neither do you!”
This, in a roundabout way, is Marshall’s justification for her latest wheeze: recreating one of Bob Dylan’s famous 1966 shows from his controversial “Judas” tour at the Royal Albert Hall in November. “If this is the first and last time I’m ever going to play there,” she reasons, “might as well make it a humdinger!”
Marshall is currently “decompressing” between two legs of her world tour at a friend’s house in upstate New York. At various points, our interview is interrupted by
