The nine lives of Cat Power
India, July 27 -- Two months ago, the American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, was touring Europe with her Cat Power Sings Dylan '66 tour, recreating Bob Dylan's legendary Albert Hall concert, complete with the acoustic-to-electric arc that scandalised folk purists nearly 60 years ago.
For Marshall, it's been a remarkable journey to this point. As musician and actor Carrie Brownstein recently wrote in The New Yorker, Richard Avedon's iconic 2003 photograph of her - cigarette in hand, holding a Bob Dylan T-shirt askew over a bare torso, jeans left half-unzipped - captured an artist seemingly indifferent to the grandiosity of being featured in this magazine.
That image, from a chaotic period in Marshall's life, fee...
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