Cat Power - The Greatest Album | Indie Rock Music for Relaxation & Road Trips

Despite the misleading title, 2006's 'The Greatest' is not a best-of collection, but rather is Chan Marshall aka Cat Power's first album not to include any cover songs. 'The Greatest' feels like a late-night walk down the loneliest street in the world. Chan Marshall, the almost pathologically shy artist, made her seventh full-length in the heart of old school blues territory, lining her mournful tunes with the classic wax of old Stax records—you can practically taste the stale cigarette smoke.

Recorded in Memphis, with a handful of ’60s soul legends, these 12 songs are gripping, effortless and every bit as brutal as a vicious sucker punch. By turns solemn and wistful, Marshall can just as easily find the silver lining as mourn what’s lost. Stunning in its seeming ease and a deeply moving whole, 'The Greatest' is a devastating knockout that wraps its emotional roundhouse in the softest velvet imaginable. A stirring, raw masterpiece.

Tracklist:

A1 The Greatest
A2 Living Proof
A3 Lived In Bars
A4 Could We
A5 Empty Shell
A6 Willie
B1 Where Is My Love
B2 The Moon
B3 Islands
B4 After It All
B5 Hate
B6 Love & Communication
B7 Up And Gone