Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) is the victor of the Sixth Annual Shortlist Music Prize for her album The Greatest. The first woman to win the Shortlist Music Prize (past winners include Sufjan Stevens, TV On the Radio and Damien Rice), this was Marshall's second nomination after 2003's nod for You Are Free.
This years prize was selected by a panel of nine Listmakers including Franz Ferdinand, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Panic! at the Disco, Sufjan Stevens, KT Tunstall, members of Snow Patrol, the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci, Toure and the one and only, Rev. Moose.
The other nine finalists for the award were Band of Horses, Beirut, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Spank Rock and Tom Waits.
Cat Power "Lived in Bars"
This years prize was selected by a panel of nine Listmakers including Franz Ferdinand, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Panic! at the Disco, Sufjan Stevens, KT Tunstall, members of Snow Patrol, the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci, Toure and the one and only, Rev. Moose.
The other nine finalists for the award were Band of Horses, Beirut, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Spank Rock and Tom Waits.
Cat Power "Lived in Bars"