“I Don't Blame You” by Cat Power

"I Don't Blame You" opens You Are Free, the sixth album from Cat Power, the name Chan Marshall records under, released on Matador in 2003. It was the last song she wrote for the record, and it went down on the fly: during the mixing sessions she kept playing it at the piano, over and over, with everyone else off at the ping-pong table, and finally asked whether she could get it down quickly. Adam Kasper recorded and mixed it.

Marshall told Pitchfork that year it was her favorite song on the album, simply because it was the freshest in her memory, and three years on she was still naming it her favorite to play live. She wanted it out as a single, but it never got one, and no video was ever made.

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