Speaking for Trees

Speaking for Trees
Live album by Cat Power
Released	October 26, 2004
Genre	Indie rock

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Speaking for Trees: A Film by Mark Borthwick is a DVD/CD package by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall), released on October 26, 2004.

The DVD contains footage of Cat Power singing and playing electric guitar in a forest at West Kill Mountain, upstate New York, filmed by British photographer Mark Borthwick in essentially a single, nearly two-hour static shot. It also features three short films by Borthwick, set to the songs "Maybe Not," Free" and "Half of You" from Cat Power's 2003 album, You Are Free.

The CD contains the single song "Willie Deadwilder," an 18-minute outtake from the You Are Free sessions featuring American singer/songwriter M. Ward on guitar. The song was reworked as "Willie," a six-minute track on Cat Power's 2006 album, The Greatest.

Track listing

DVD

All tracks by Chan Marshall except where noted.

1. "Time Is on My Side" (Jerry Ragovoy as Norman Meade)
2. "Night Time/ Back of Your Head" (Alex Chilton/Chan Marshall)
3. "Rule the Islands"
4. "You"
5. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan)
6. "From Fur City"
7. "I Want"
8. "Dream/ Blue Moon/ Try a Little Tenderness" James Campbell/Reginald Connelly/Lorenz Hart/Chan Marshall/Richard Rodgers/ Harry M. Woods
9. "You"
10. "From Fur City"
11. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan)
12. "Farewell My Enemy"
13. "Sad, Sad, Song" (M. Ward))
14. "Rule the Islands"
15. "Evolution"
16. "Night Time/ Back of Your Head" (Alex Chilton/Chan Marshall)
17. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish)
18. "I Don't Blame You"
19. "Dream/ Blue Moon/ Try a Little Tenderness" (James Campbell/Reginald Connelly/Lorenz Hart/Chan Marshall/Richard Rodgers/ Harry M. Woods)
20. "The Party"
21. "Funny Things"
22. "Love and Communication"
23. "From Fur City"
24. "Sad, Sad, Song" (M. Ward)
25. "Night Time/ Back of Your Head" (Alex Chilton/Chan Marshall)
26. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish)
27. "I Want"
28. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan)
29. "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" (Traditional)

Recorded and produced by Trevor Kampmann.

CD

1. "Willie Deadwilder"

External links

• Speaking for Trees: A Film by Mark Borthwick at the Internet Movie Database
• Allmovie
• Pitchfork review
• BBC review