On this night in May, the tension between Dylan's inspiration and his audience's expectations was particularly raw, with band and crowd egging each other toward a frenzy that culminated with the most famous heckle in rock history: 'Judas!'
Her latest, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, is a song-by-song recreation of his set list that night. Marshall has a good bit in common with Dylan: an elliptical approach to subject matter, a sometimes fraught relationship with her audience, a willingness to follow her muse far afield from the sounds that made her famous, and tone and phrasing that can channel something deep about her sources when they're divergent on the surface.
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