Dear Sir is the debut album by American

United States

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 singer/songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Chan Marshall, also known as Cat Power

Cat Power

Charlyn Marie Marshall , also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer/songwriter and occasional actress and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has come to refer to her musical projects with various backing bands...

. It was released in 1995 on Runt Records. The 2001 Plain Recordings reissue adds the song "Great Expectations" as the eighth track. The cover art depicts text superimposed over a male torso. The album features Steve Shelley

Steve Shelley

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 on drums and Tim Foljean on guitar. Chan Marshall does the singing and plays guitar as well. It is the shortest Cat Power album, not counting her EPs.

Track listing

1. "3 Times" – 4:13
2. "Rockets" – 4:43
3. "Itchyhead" – 2:44
4. "Yesterday Is Here" (Kathleen Brennan
   Kathleen Brennan
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    & Tom Waits
   Tom Waits
   Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
   
    from the album Franks Wild Years
   Franks Wild Years
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   ) – 3:34
5. "The Sleepwalker" (Chris Matthews
   Chris Matthews (musician)
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   ) – 4:02
6. "Mr. Gallo
   Vincent Gallo
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   " – 3:19
7. "No Matter" (Instrumental) – 1:02
8. "Headlights" - 4:03
9. "Great Expectations (Hidden Track)" - 4:13 [included in 2001 re-release]