Cat Power

Next year will see Cat Power perform The Greatest in its entirety with a very special 20th anniversary live show at The Roundhouse on November 3, 2026. Get your tickets now!

Cat Power’s seventh studio album, The Greatest proved an immediate landmark in her already acclaimed career upon its January 2006 release. Recorded at Memphis, TN’s famed Ardent Studios with backing from some of that city’s most renowned session musicians, the album marked the first Cat Power release to exclusively feature songs written by Marshall, performed with understated Southern soulfulness and stunning creative confidence.

The Greatest was met by worldwide critical applause while entering the Billboard 200 at #34 – Cat Power’s biggest commercial success to that date. Named by Rolling Stone at #6 on its “Top 50 Albums of 2006” as well #26 on its “100 Best Albums of the 2000s,” the collection was awarded with 2006’s prestigious Shortlist Music Prize, making history as the first album by a female artist to be accorded that honor.

The album was also nominated for a Brit Award for Best International Female Vocal. The release was followed by a marathon world tour that saw Marshall backed by Dirty Delta Blues, an electrifying supergroup named after its members’ musical origins and later featured on 2008’s even more commercially successful Jukebox.