Charlyn Marie Marshall, also known as Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall, was born in Georgia. After dropping out of high school, she started performing under the name Cat Powerwhile in Atlanta, backed by musicians Glen Thrasher, Mark Moore, and others. She soon moved to New York City where, after opening for Liz Phair in 1994, she met Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, who encouraged her to record, and played on her first two albums, 1995's Dear Sirand 1996's Myra Lee. In 1996 she was signed to Matador Records, and released her third album, What Would the Community Think, which spawned a single and music video, "Nude as the News". Shortly following the release of What Would the Community ThinkMarshall disappeared from the musical scene, initially working as a baby sitter in Portland, Oregon and then moving to a farmhouse in Prosperity, South Carolina with boyfriend Bill Callahan (who performs under the name Smog).
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In This Hole. Lyrics
Cat Power
( cat power, what would the community think? lp )
In this hole we have fixed
We get further and further and further
Further from the world
We must do
We must do
I saw you asleep beside a wall
Your skull inside the wall
Your mind blackened by
All the thought of god
One absence of truth
One horrible thing you saw
What you truly wanted to become
And who you thought I was
Who you thought I was
In this hole we have fixed
We get further and further
Further from the world
We must do
We must do
I saw you outside that wall
The skull outside that wall
Your mind finally free
And all the thoughts you thought
And all the thought of god