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    Why Cat Power covered the most infamous live album in rock history

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 21, 2023 7 minutes
    Cat Power performs on stage at Vulture Festival Presents Cat Power At Webster Hall on May 20, 2017, in New York City.

    LOS ANGELES — When Chan Marshall ends a romantic relationship for one reason or another — “They’ve gone with someone else,” she offers by way of example, “or they die or they become insane” — she typically cuts her long hair short.

    “It’s always a love movement,” says the 51-year-old singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and former Chanel model better known as Cat Power. “And it’s about every 10 years. Then I’ll open my heart again and make the stupid mistake of falling in love with someone.”

    These days she wears a choppy shag with bangs that swoop down toward her eyes. Sitting by the pool at the Chateau Marmont on a recent afternoon, she twirls a brown strand in her fingers as she smokes a cigarette and sips iced tea sweetened with Splenda.

    So she’s not in love right now?

    “I could be very easily — it could happen in five minutes,” she answers with a raspy laugh. “I’d love this article to be an ‘I’m single’ debut.”

    Marshall, whose soft Southern drawl points to her upbringing in Georgia, is in town from Miami

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