You Are Free is the sixth album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 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, a.k.a. 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 2003 on Matador Records

Matador Records

Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of indie rock artists and bands.-History:Matador was started by Chris Lombardi in 1989 in his New York City apartment. The following year, Lombardi was joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy, and the two of them have...

. Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

 of Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

 and The Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...

 plays the drums and Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...

 of Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...

 provides backing vocals on two tracks. Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis (musician)

Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and his soundtrack scores with Nick Cave. He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, and tenor guitar...

 played violin on two songs.

Reception

Online music magazine

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 Pitchfork Media

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 placed You Are Free at number 98 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Track listing

All tracks written by Chan Marshall except where noted.

1. "I Don't Blame You
   I Don't Blame You
   "I Don't Blame You" is a rock song by the American singer/ songwriter, Cat Power . It is the first song on her 2003 album, You Are Free.-Background:"I Don't Blame You" was the last song written for You Are Free...
   
   " – 3:05
2. "Free" – 3:34
3. "Good Woman (featuring Warren Ellis
   Warren Ellis (musician)
   Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and his soundtrack scores with Nick Cave. He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, and tenor guitar...
   
    and Eddie Vedder
   Eddie Vedder
   Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...
   
   )" – 3:58
4. "Speak for Me" – 3:04
5. "Werewolf" (Michael Hurley) – 4:08
6. "Fool" – 3:49
7. "He War
   He War
   "He War" is a song by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power and the second single from her 2003 album, You Are Free. Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl provided drumming for the track...
   
   " – 3:31
8. "Shaking Paper" – 4:36
9. "Babydoll" – 2:56
10. "Maybe Not" – 4:19
11. "Names" – 4:50
12. "Half of You" – 2:42
13. "Keep on Runnin' (Crawlin' Black Spider)" (John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
    
    ) – 3:51
14. "Evolution (featuring Eddie Vedder
    Eddie Vedder
    Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...
    
    )" – 4:44
15. "The Party" (Japan bonus track) – 2:49

Participants

• Chan Marshall – vocals, guitars, piano
• Warren Ellis
  Warren Ellis
  Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...
  
   – violin on "Good Woman"
• Dave Grohl
  Dave Grohl
  David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...
  
   – bass on "Speak For Me", drums on "Speak For Me", "He-War" and "Shaking Paper"
• Eddie Vedder
  Eddie Vedder
  Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...
  
   – vocals on "Good Woman" and "Evolution"
• David Campbell
  David Campbell (American arranger/composer)
  David Richard Campbell is a Canadian-American arranger, composer and conductor. He has worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums including Death Magnetic , Minutes to Midnight , KISS Symphony: Alive IV Spirit , These Days , Fallen , and various albums by his son...
  
   – string arrangement on "Good Woman" and "Werewolf"
• Maggie & Emma – vocals on "Good Woman"
• Adam Kasper
  Adam Kasper
  Adam Kasper is a Seattle area record producer and engineer, working with such bands as Cat Power, Pond, Seaweed, The Tragically Hip, Truly, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Soundgarden and Pearl Jam...
  
   – recording, mixing
• Rick Fisher – mastering
• Mark Borthwick – photography

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2003	Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	1
2003	The Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	105
2003	Top Independent Albums	2
2003	French Albums Chart	96
2003	U.K. Albums Chart	157 http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_C.HTM