{"id":2865,"date":"2010-07-28T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:46:09","slug":"cat-power-shreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cat-power-shreds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Power Shreds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vnuOVzXvV0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYears ago, after hearing her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sGyRpdKbSy4\" target=\"_blank\">butcher &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;<\/a> and then reading a bunch of ridiculous, freak show-glorifying reviews by kids afraid too chicken to fly into the sun and have their own, healthy breakdown, I figured I would forever cringe at the thought of <strong>Cat Power<\/strong>. Then she started to get all Memphis soul and actually sing structured arrangements with a cool band. These cats even tried to help her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oO_k4_Qy_Zs\" target=\"_blank\">reconstruct &#8220;Satisfaction.&#8221;<\/a> They tried; at least Chan looks like her hormones have been activated, as the song was written to influence.<\/p>\n<p>I own one of those Memphis soul albums and like it a lot. I no longer cringe at the thought of Cat Power; in fact, for the last few years I&#8217;ve been open to hearing more of her music. I&#8217;ve even moved past my disdain for fans of her early records. Just now, however, I was hoping to find a clip of <strong>Fairport Convention<\/strong> doing &#8220;Who Knows Where the Time Goes,&#8221; my favorite song by them. I was listening to a live version on the drive in this morning, and figured maybe I&#8217;d finally find live footage of <strong>Sandy Denny<\/strong> performing the song with them. Nice dice. Instead I came across this solo Cat Power performance.<\/p>\n<p><em>WTF?<\/em> Is this part of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsanders.com\/www\/pages\/videos.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;[Insert Artist] Shreds&#8221;<\/a> series of videos I&#8217;ve seen posted on YouTube?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, after hearing her butcher &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; and then reading a bunch of ridiculous, freak show-glorifying reviews by kids afraid too chicken to fly into the sun and have their own, healthy breakdown, I figured I would forever cringe at the thought of Cat Power. Then she started to get all Memphis soul and actually <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cat-power-shreds\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[292,294,127,293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}