IF you can’t enjoy a healthy serving of leftovers at Christmas, when can you? This mini-album of extras from the sessions for Cat Power’s awesome Jukebox album would happily serve as a lesser talent’s main dish. Six tracks, all covers, that perfectly showcase Chan Mar-shall’s skill at getting inside a song and making it her own.
It’s not as if she makes it easy on herself either. The crow-black deep soul of James Carr’s title track has long been defined by the sublime Percy Sledge version, yet Chan somehow manages to uncover new depths.
Equally, she captures every ounce of yearning in Otis Redding’s peerless ballad I’ve Been Loving You Too Long; finds extra swing in Aretha’s It Ain’t Fair; and gives The Pogues’ Ye Auld Triangle a soulful refit.
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