Cat Power revisits The Greatest, the Memphis soul record that turned Chan Marshall's career, in full at the Roundhouse twenty years after its release.
Cat Power performs The Greatest, her 2006 Memphis soul album, in full at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm on Tuesday 3 November 2026, twenty years after its release.
Born Charlyn Marie Marshall in Atlanta in 1972, the daughter of a blues pianist, Chan Marshall grew up across the American South. Cat Power was the name of her first band before it became her own.
After opening for Liz Phair in 1993, she recorded her first two albums in a single day with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. She then signed to Matador, making Moon Pix in 1998 and You Are Free, with Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, in 2003.
The Greatest was recorded in Memphis with the Memphis Rhythm Band, the guitarist Teenie Hodges among them, and set her songs in soul horns and strings. It won the Shortlist Music Prize in 2006, the first time a woman had taken it.
The Roundhouse was raised in 1846 and 1847 as a railway engine shed to designs by Robert Stephenson. Under its iron roof she plays the record in sequence in new arrangements, alongside songs from across her catalogue.