Autre Exclusive Premiere: Cat Power "From Fur City" An Elegy To Benjamin Smoke

January 29, 2021

Autre presents a never-before-seen live video of Cat Power (Chan Marshall) performing "From Fur City" at Tonic in NYC in 2003. Film by Scott Crary (Kill Your Idols, 2004). Exclusively premiered on www.autre.love as an elegy to artist, musician, and songwriter, Benjamin Smoke who died on January 29, 1999. The song "From Fur City" has never been on a proper studio album.

Autre presents an exclusive premiere of a never-before-seen live video of Cat Power (Chan Marshall) performing "From Fur City" at Tonic in NYC in 2003, a powerful elegy to radical and legendary musician and songwriter, Benjamin Smoke who died on January 29, 1999. The song "From Fur City" has never been on a proper studio album. Filmed by Scott Crary (Kill Your Idols, 2004).

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