I am quite smitten with the just-out CD from Cat Power, "The Greatest." Cat Power is the performing name of the critically raved about Chan Marshall. I was expecting a more raucous album — it’s called Cat Power, afterall.  Instead, it’s an ambient, moody, slow-speed and eclectic voice-piano-strings soundscape with songs that convey the poetic wisdom of a love-worn life.

Marshall has a endearing world-weariness that calls to mind a low-energy Lucinda Williams with a little Memphis R&B and shoo bop thrown in for good measure.

Check it out. Sound Track and Music Matters has it in stock.