Cat Power & The Memphis Rhythm Band: Live, That Tent, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, 6/16/06

So I finally find a live bootleg that represents the new live Chan, and the sound recording is not the best. Still worth a listen, if you own an ipod or some other unworthy mp3 player and some solid earphones (Sennheiser PX100 recommended). Just about any medium but your cranky old pc without external speakers. The flacs for this are not any better so don't leave me nasty comments about lossless files. Yes, they do exist but I don't post flacs - go find them if you want them. Gosh, I am so uptight this morning - all this pre-emptive overreaction. I am so Isreal right now.

Speaking on the new Chan, anyone who ever went to a Cat Power gig knows it's a gamble - you either come away wishing her death for wasting your time and money with her antics, or you tend to rationalize it as being gypsy art. Well, gist is Chan has cleaned up her live image and performance persona considerably. And she stopped drowning in juice too (she jokes about it in Part 2 of this gig). This PopMatters review of a recent gig will explain further.

The music sounds great too, and the rhythm section is vamped up on some traditionally sombre songs, such as Lived in Bars. Kudos of course to the Memphis Rhythm Band.

Anyways, here's Part 1 of the show. More later.

Instrumental #1 (Memphis Rhythm Band)
Instrumental #2 (Memphis Rhythm Band)
The Greatest
Living Proof
Lived in Bars
Could We
Empty Shell
Willie
The Moon
Islands
Where Is My Love