Cat Power: Beauty Secrets
Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2006
CHAN MARSHALL'S a spectral beauty, haunted and ethereal as the songs she crafts. What makes her even more extraordinary is how selfless she is, insisting that she's merely lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
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