'Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert' Out Now
10th November 2023
Renowned singer-songwriter Cat Power has announced today’s arrival of her eagerly awaited new live album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, available now.
Recorded November 5, 2022 at London’s vaunted Royal Albert Hall, the 15-song collection sees the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall paying tribute to Bob Dylan with a complete live reimagining of his legendary performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966. Long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg, the original performance saw Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing the ire of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock ‘n’ roll. Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert both lovingly honors Dylan’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs, including “She Belongs to Me,” “Ballad of a Thin Man,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “Like A Rolling Stone.”
“More than the work of any other songwriter,” says Chan Marshall, “Dylan’s songs have spoken to me, and inspired me since I first began hearing them at 5 years old.”
Cat Power will commemorate today’s release of Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert with a performance, set for NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, November 13.
Marshall – who earlier this week heralded the new album with a trio of sold-out West Coast performances of Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert – will be performing at an already sold-out Carnegie Hall on February 14, 2024. There will also be a performance at a fundraiser for WYXR’s Raised By Sound Fest at Memphis, TN’s Crosstown Theater on December 2 that is also sold out. These dates mark the show’s US debut following sold-out performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November 2022 and Sydney, Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House in May 2023. “Now we know how much applause it takes to lift the Albert Hall,” wrote The London Times of the debut performance, while The Telegraph summed it up as “pure celebration” in its 4-out-of-5-starred review. Sydney’s Time Out praised “the sheer transcendence” of this spring’s Opera House performance, hailing the experience as “spiked with a deep and enduring sense of timelessness, made all the more potent through Power’s pure vocals. We could’ve been anywhere, at any point in history, anywhere in the solar system…Magnificent.”
Cat Power Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Album | 10th November 2023
In November 2022, Cat Power took the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966—but long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg—the original performance saw Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing ire from an audience of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock-and-roll. In her own rendition of that historic night, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall inhabited each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy. Now captured on the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall’s spellbinding performance both lovingly honors her hero’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs.
Cat Power Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Album | 10th November 2023
In November 2022, Cat Power took the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966—but long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg—the original performance saw Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing ire from an audience of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock-and-roll. In her own rendition of that historic night, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall inhabited each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy. Now captured on the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall’s spellbinding performance both lovingly honors her hero’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs.
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