New Cat Power Video - Lived In Bars

This video was partially filmed at The Lamplighter which is one of my favorite dive bars in Memphis. I wrote anout it in my OTR columm a few weeks ago...

Chan Marshall, better known in the indie-rock world as Cat Power, returned to Memphis last week to film the video for "Lived In Bars." The Robert Gordon- directed piece depicts an all-out bash filmed at The Lamplighter on Madison Avenue, one of Midtown's favorite dives.

"We had a dance party there that George Klein would have been proud of," says Gordon.

The song is from her latest album The Greatest, released in January and recorded in Memphis with the Memphis Rhythm Band, a hodgepodge of musicians Gordon helped Marshall put together that includes Teenie Hodges, Steve Potts, Dave Smith, Rick Steff, Doug Easley, Jim Spake, Scott Thompson and Susan Marshall. String arrangements were contributed by Harlan T. Bobo and Jonathan Kirkscey.

Marshall will be on tour most of the summer with her Memphis cohorts, including a stop at next weekend's Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Or check them out on June 13 "The Late Show with David Letterman." As to how the new record sounds, her press material sums it up: "If Alex Chilton were today a beautiful young woman, he'd sound like this."