Living Proof

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2005-12-15

Label: Matador

From the Matador CD/LP The Greatest in stores January 24, 2006

"For her brand new studio album, 'The Greatest', Chan Marshall, AKA Cat Power, returned to Memphis, pursuing this time the slinky Hi Records sound of the '70's, famed for its sensuous feel and beguiling rhythms. She got Al Green's guitarist and songwriting partner Mabon "Teenie" Hodges to play guitar on the whole album (Teenie co-wrote "Love and Happiness" and "Take Me to the River," among other soul classics). Cat Power went right to the sources, and has created her own paean to the songs and styles she grew up on.

'The Greatest' adds to Cat Power's singular sound all the elements that make an Al Green record great: Memphis horns, funky string arrangements, smooth background vocals. "Living Proof" is a hypnotic song that seems to start in the middle of the night and flow backward like water upstream to the source of a good time."

Note that while the CD artwork states the duration is 3:11, it is actually 3:10.