Cat Power Jukebox (Matador)

19 November 2007

Described as a homage to her favourite singers, Jukebox is composed almost entirely of covers and sees Cat Power offering up her distinctive treatments of songs by the likes of James Brown and Hank Williams. It follows up her most commercially-successful album to date, 2006’s The Greatest, which earned her a Brit nomination for best international newcomer.

The album has sold more than 400,000 copies around the world to date. Song To Bobby, Jukebox’s only original track and a song inspired by her introduction to Bob Dylan last year, was made available last week exclusively from iTunes. “This is a very exciting release for us,” says Matador’s UK label manager Natalie Wade. “Cat Power is one of our most established artists and [it is] a great start to 2008 for Matador.” Cat Power and her dirty Delta Blues band will be touring through 2008 to support the release and Matador is to release a deluxe edition of the album, containing a bonus disc of five tracks.

CAST LIST Management: Jon Turner and Angus Murray, State Management. A&R: Matt Edwards, EMI. Product manager: Matt Dixon, EMI. National radio: Kate Burnett and Heff Fletcher, Rapture. Regional radio: Andrew Thompson, EMI. National press: Ruth Clarke, Toast.