“New York” by Cat Power

"New York" finds Cat Power working from somebody else's songbook, and the credits say whose: John Kander wrote the music and Fred Ebb the words. It's on Jukebox, the eighth Cat Power studio album, which Matador put out in January 2008, and it has plenty of company there. Apart from "Song to Bobby" and "Metal Heart", a song first recorded and released back in 1998, the whole record is covers.

That made Jukebox the second covers collection from Marshall, the artist behind the Cat Power name, after The Covers Record, and the formula held up: the album entered the Billboard 200 at 12, and a silver-foil deluxe edition tacked on a bonus disc of five more songs.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.