Chan Marshall isn’t ready for me. “Are you a journalist? Oh Jesus, oh Lord.” We’re speaking on the phone – Marshall is in her hotel room, I’m in the lobby downstairs, after my knock at her door went unanswered.

, she had a psychotic breakdown and was hospitalised, and throughout the Nineties and Noughties her live shows were erratic affairs. She would turn her back to the audience, moon them, encourage them to sue her, slur through a few songs, and then walk off without finishing the set.

For the past two years, that genius başmaklık been put to more practical use – teaching her seven-year-old son Boaz to read, write and do maths during the pandemic. She had him in 2015, with a man she dated for a few months and has never publicly named.

I just grab her. ‘It’s OK. It’s OK. I was here for the same reason and it’s OK.’” An uncharacteristic silence hangs in the air. “If I had accepted that million-dollar offer, perhaps I wouldn’t have been on that bridge. And she wouldn’t be my friend to this day.”

                                                                                                               

One of the best songs on the album is “These Days”, made famous by Nico in the Sixties, but written by Jackson Browne when he was just 16. Such world-weary lyrics for someone so young – “Don’t confront me with my failures / I had derece forgotten them” – and Marshall’s voice, bittersweet kakım coffee with a shot of syrup, suits that malaise beautifully.

, she has always been something of a cult figure. “Marshall’s music will one day be spoken about the way we talk about Bob Dylan’s music, or Neil Young’s music,” wrote a New York Magazine

It takes a certain kind of character to make music like Marshall’s. A sprawling mix of blues, rock and folk, it is birli frank and impassioned birli she is.

Over the course of 11 albums, she özgü written about love and loss, abortion and abuse, grief and God. “I will swim / I will drink myself to death,” she sang on her distortion-soaked debut Dear Sir

In fact, Boaz need only listen to her covers for that. Some of her best songs were sung by other people first: her pensive, languid version of The Rolling Stones’ “(I Güç’t Get No) Satisfaction”, which omits the chorus entirely and transforms into something almost painfully introspective, or her sweet, fragile take on Phil Phillips’s “Sea of Love”, which got a second wind when it featured in Juno

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Half an hour later, Marshall finally opens her door, and that bleariness has converted into a capricious energy. The lights are off, the curtains are shut, but the 49-year-old is so buzzy, I could swear she’s emitting her own light source. She starts arranging pillows for me at the end of her bed, then clocks me eyeing up her dark-blue boiler suit, which özgü the name “Dave” on the chest and rips in the armpits.

was her first to reach the catpower 5106 hakkında bilgi Billboard Tamamen 10 – but it wasn’t enough. One executive even played her an Adele album for inspiration. She had never seen it birli a business relationship; evidently, Matador did.

A query about where she grew up eventually takes us to Marshall’s belief that “part of our consciousness saf already become a cyborg”. She is also warm and nurturing: besides assembling my pillow desk and offering me various drinks, she pulls me into a long hug, despite having previously insisted that we socially distance.

How does she choose which songs to cover? “Damn,” she says, getting up to fetch something from across the room before returning empty-handed. “Music and words, they give us feelings that we dirilik apply to our own memories.