Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come Easy Go 2LP Coloured Vinyl

Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come Easy Go

Songstress Marianne Faithfull last collaborated with producer Hal Willner on her iconic Strange Weather album in 1987 and the match also feels effortless and natural here. Like Strange Weather, Easy Come Easy Go is a covers collection, featuring Faithfull in different musical settings and interpreting the songs of everyone from Merle Haggard to Smokey Robinson to Duke Ellington to Randy Newman to the Decemberists to Morrissey with a killer guest list including Antony Hegarty, Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Jarvis Cocker, Jenni Muldaur, Sean Lennon, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, and Keith Richards. The core band on this set includes old friends like Marc Ribot and Greg Cohen as well as drummer Jim White, Rob Burger, Doug Weiselman, Steve Weisberg, Barry Reynolds, Steven Bernstein, Marty Ehrlich, and Lenny Pickett.

The sense of stylistic sprawl on these 12 songs is incredible. For example, the album opener, a cover of Dolly Parton's "Down from Dover," features the full band and guests numbering 18 strong! Faithfull's trademark deep-throated, whiskey-and-cigarettes-ravaged voice shows up in excellent form and take you on journeys through love, lust, tragedy, and longing and bring you home again. This reissue is a special one with a white coloured vinyl edition.

Tracklist:
A1 Down From Dover
A2 Hold On Hold On
A3 Solitude
A4 The Crane Wife 3
A5 Easy Come, Easy Go

B1 Ooh Baby Baby
B2 Kimbie
B3 Children Of Stone

C1 The Phoenix
C2 In Germany Before The War
C3 Dear God Please Help Me
C4 Salvation
C5 Somewhere (A Place For Us)

D1 Many A Mile To Freedom
D2 Black Coffee
D3 Flandyke Shore
D4 How Many Worlds
D5 Sing Me Back Home

Label: Naïve
Released: 2008/2023