How old is chan marshall

I found a house for rent. I got all my fucking music gear out of storage. Her recording engineer moved from France into the spare room. Went on tour when he was 2 months old. When he was 3 months old I started working [on Wanderer ]. As Adrienne Rich wrote, the suffering of the mother is the primary way culture identifies a woman as a mother. Marshall, a single mom who tours with her nowyear-old and a traveling nanny in tow, is having none of that. I thought of her all the time, she was a cotton picker, alone with five kids, with no electricity.

With Wanderer, there is really no missing it: the album is a testimony to her autonomy and confidence, Cat Power distilled down to an unadorned, few-fucks-given essence. Over the course of a year, in between Cat Power tours, while Marshall put the elegiac folk-blues of Wanderer to tape in Miami and then L. Just to make art! But the rejection galvanized her. Their bodies are language. She also talks about Aretha Franklin.

But when I heard her sing, all the garbage was cleared away. Finally, she settled back in Atlanta, where many of her friends would become addicted to heroin, before moving to New York in with the late musician Glen Thrasher. Only through my own experience have I, you know, whether I wanted to or not, had to continue moving and wandering. So I never felt like I had a home. My son is now my home. Certainly, Marshall seems in a better place now. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? It was always like old-man stuff. I had no need to buy clothes. Everything I had in my apartment was from the street. I moved there when I was The living room is his studio. They have no idea where to find me.

The North had the Industrial Revolution. The South had agriculture, farms — cotton, peanuts, tobacco. But the North had it, too. Chicago, Detroit, Harlem. But you have an industrial civilization in the North. In the South you have agriculture, and you have a lot of extreme poverty. The choices are kind of limited. The church or alcohol is pretty much what people had. During Vietnam everybody left home. Now everyone goes to New York or LA. My dad moved from Alabama to Atlanta.

When you get drafted, you have to get a physical and be interviewed. Supposedly, my dad jumped out of the window during the interview, and my stepdad dressed up like a woman. Neither of them went to Vietnam. But my uncle went, and he came back completely psychologically handicapped. He was a medivac, so he sat in a helicopter and went out and got all the bodies and all the injured.

I went to Tennessee and lived outside of Memphis. Then I went back to Georgia, back and forth, and I kept moving between different family members. Before I was born. But they were never really married. They proclaimed their love via witnesses and probably lots of alcohol.

My dad and my stepdad, they were all friends with my mom, and they were all part of the same scene. My mother, she says she was a singer, but my dad did it as a job. He was in all these different bands, and he took care of me a couple of times. He played music for people.

He was singing and tap-dancing for money in Alabama when he was five. Religion is huge in the South. My grandmother, who raised me until I was four, took me to church with her. And the way she sang was different than going to see my dad play. Even in tribes, music is a human communal thing. I got that part of singing from her. And you will burn in hell! I went to 13 schools growing up. There was a girl who lived down the street who came to our door and brought cookies and brownies to welcome us to the neighborhood, and she asked if I wanted to go to church with her.

One of my sisters and I went with her. Her mom was the piano player for the choir. After church she would have choir practice, so we were in choir with her because our ride home was with her mom. Journalistic Standards. About The Star. More Entertainment. Top Stories. About Contact Us Feedback. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.