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Mark those calendars now: January 22, 2008 is the day we cash in all those Best Buy and Target holiday gift cards* and purchase copies of Cat Power's previously discussed sophomore plunge into the realm of cover-dom. The date comes from a Billboard.com report and has been confirmed by the purveyor of said plunge, Matador Records.

The disc, which does not yet have a finalized title (apparently Covers 2 and Covers II are neck-and-neck-- the drama!), is, of course, the sequel of sorts to 2000's The Covers Record; unlike that disc, round two finds Chan Marshall backed by her trusty Dirty Delta Blues Band. Marshall is still in the process of paring down a heap of recordings into a crisp, clean tracklist.

Gal will also, we suspect, test drive plenty of those covers she's stockpiling while on the road this fall.

* JK, we sell those things to mom for cold, hard cash, which we promptly take to indie record shops.

Cat fancy:

10-13 Fairburn, GA - Bouckaert Farm (The Echo Project)
10-14 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
10-15 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club (DAM! Festival)
10-16 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10-18 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon at Florida State University
10-19 Savannah, GA - Trustee's Theatre
10-20 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone
10-21 St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
10-22 Miami, FL - Studio A
10-25 São Paulo, Brazil - Auditório Ibirapuera (TIM Festival) #
10-26 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Marina da Glória (TIM Festival) (with Dirty Delta Blues) $
11-04 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest

# with Antony and the Johnsons, Toni Platão
$ with Feist