Cat Power

Chan Marshall's voice is like glass. It cracks if you ask too much of it and both are beautiful until they are broken. And I do mean broken, Marshall has been known to break down on stage into tears, and for the first years of her performances in Memphis, TN, where she was raised by a dusty cowboy of a father, she performed with her back to the audience.

Those days are over, and Marshall now faces the audience, and she does it with a flair that is rarely seen and is embraced by even those that have photos of Marilyn Manson on their blogs (scroll down). But this Cat is effing good and her latest album, The Greatest, has made lots of noise on critics' 2006 Best Of lists. With 2004's You Are Free and this year's The Greatest, Ms. Power is the author of two incredibly whole bodies of work. Each still has its own dynamic, and seems to want to go in spasming directions, and each resemble a Counting Crows acoustic set if they had candles and a beauty in a tank top.

Marshall sings the same way she walks on a hardwood floor in the middle of the night--very carefully and not wanting to make too much noise. Unfortunately for her, the secret is out.

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