Dark End of the Street (EP)

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Dark End of the Street
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EP by
ReleasedDecember 9, 2008
Genre Indie rock
Label Matador
Producer Stuart Sikes
Cat Power chronology
Jukebox
(2008)
Dark End of the Street
(2008)
Sun
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 62/100 [1]
Review scores
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The A.V. Club B [2]
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Dark End of the Street is an EP album by American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, also known as Cat Power. It was released on 9 December 2008 by Matador Records.

Contents

Dark End of the Street was released both digitally and on a limited edition double 10". It contains six songs originally by Brendan Behan, James Carr, Sandy Denny, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Aretha Franklin, which were recorded during Cat Power's Jukebox sessions. Among the six, four were previously unpublished tracks. [12]

Track listing

  1. "Dark End of the Street" (Chips Moman, Dan Penn) *
  2. "Fortunate Son" (John Fogerty)
  3. "Ye Auld Triangle" (Dominic Behan) *
  4. "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" (Otis Redding, Jerry Butler)
  5. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (Sandy Denny) *
  6. "It Ain't Fair" (Ronnie Miller) *

* previously unreleased

Personnel

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