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Over the phone from her apartment
in Paris, Marianne Faithfull's famous gravelly languidity comes dripping
through the wires. She sounds happy, at peace with things, and eager to
talk about her new album, Easy Come Easy Go, just out in the States on
Decca.
Easy
Come is another
in a long line of Faithfull's projects in partnership with producer Hal
Willner, a collaboration that began in 1985 with Willner's Kurt Weill
tribute album Lost in the Stars. A remarkably well-selected and
idiosyncratically arranged set of tunes culled from the best of this and
last century's popular faves, Easy Come boasts clever and somehow
appropriate help from a slew of young and old crooners and players,
including Keith Richards, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Antony, Chan
Marshall (a.k.a. Cat
Power)
and Sean Lennon.
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