Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come Easy Go

180-gram gatefold white vinyl 2LP

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Naïve record label!

Naïve Records is a French independent record label based in Paris, celebrating its 25th anniversary. The label is pleased to present, for the first time in limited edition colored vinyl, the reissue of the four Marianne Faithful albums released on Naïve.

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 colored vinyl edition.

 

Down from Dover

Hold on Hold on

Solitude

The Crane Wife 3

Easy Come, Easy Go

Ooh Baby Baby

Kimbie

Children of Stone

The Phoenix

In Germany Before the War

Dear God Please Help Me

Salvation

Somewhere (A Place for Us)

Many a Mile to Freedom

Black Coffee

Flandyke Shore

How Many Worlds

Sing Me Back Home

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