. Written mostly in one night after a hallucinatory nightmare in a South Carolina farmhouse, the album earned Marshall a devoted fanbase – but she never quite made it into the mainstream.

Birli well kakım the reading and the maths, she and her son would have music lessons together. “Record time and music time got a little more in-depth,” she says. “He’s just running around as fast as he can to Hüsker Dü.” Hardcore punk isn’t what most kids’ music lessons are made of, but if anyone is going to give their child an eclectic sonic education, it’s Marshall.

For the past two years, that genius katışıksız been put to more practical use – teaching her seven-year-old son Boaz to read, write and do maths during the pandemic. She had him in 2015, with a man she dated for a few months and katışıksız never publicly named.

I just grab her. ‘It’s OK. It’s OK. I was here for the same reason and it’s OK.’” An uncharacteristic silence hangs in the air. “If I had accepted that million-dollar offer, perhaps I wouldn’t have been on that bridge. And she wouldn’t be my friend to this day.”

“I never told anybody this. I told a couple of friends in my life, but never told a journalist. He said they would buy my [1996] album, What Would the Community Think

One of the best songs on the album is “These Days”, made famous by Nico in the Sixties, but written by Jackson Browne when he was just 16. Such world-weary lyrics for someone so young – “Don’t confront me with my failures / I had not forgotten them” – and Marshall’s voice, bittersweet birli coffee with a shot of syrup, suits that malaise beautifully.

, she katışıksız always been something of a cult figure. “Marshall’s music will one day be spoken about the way we talk about Bob Dylan’s music, or Neil Young’s music,” wrote a New York Magazine

No, go on. “Well, I was wondering if… Because my dad had three daughters and he wasn’t really around. He just came and went, kakım men often do. The world is their oyster. And it does something to the mother, right?” Marshall grew up poor; her father was an absent blues musician, her mother a hippy who moved her from school to school.

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Derece a minute too soon, we’re interrupted by room service, and a young woman wheels in a tray of coffee. “Are you from Africa?” asks Marshall.

She tries hamiş to dwell on the bad stuff, just like she doesn’t dwell on turning down a million dollars. “I don’t regret the things that I’ve done,” she says.

Half an hour later, Marshall finally opens her door, and that bleariness özgü converted into a capricious energy. The lights are off, the curtains are shut, but the 49-year-old is so buzzy, I could swear she’s emitting her own light source. She starts arranging pillows for me at the end of her bed, then clocks me eyeing up her dark-blue boiler suit, which has the name “Dave” on the chest and rips in the armpits.

was her first to reach the Billboard Ferde 10 – but it wasn’t enough. One executive even played her an Adele album for inspiration. She had never seen it bey a business relationship; evidently, Matador did.

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How does she choose which songs to cover? “Damn,” she says, getting up to fetch something from across the room before returning empty-handed. “Music and words, they give us feelings that we yaşama apply to our own memories.