Cat Overload

I'm still sick but the good thing for you is that I have been incredibly bored at home because of an inability to sleep. I've found that an interesting 14 hour day can turn into a very dull 23 hour one that seems to stretch pointlessly into eternity without the tender guidance of a handy sleep aid. But that's not the point.

The boredom has led to a lot of music listening and artist rediscovering. Today I downloaded the new Cat Power album Jukebox that came out on Tuesday. Its mostly covers and she even does a cover of one of her own songs and reinvents it just as much as the James Brown and Hank Williams songs. I'll spare you the RollingStone-esque gushing about how she "inhabits" the songs and blah blah blah. I read somewhere that she was trying to capture that Fleetwood Mac sound from the Rumors album. She did a pretty good job.

Here's one of my favorites from Jukebox (click to listen or right-click and "save as" to keep it):

Lost Someone -- Its an old James Brown song