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Marianne Faithfull

Vagabond Ways

Vagabond Ways

UPC: 4050538649994

Format: LP

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Personnel: Marianne Faithfull (vocals); Michael Chaves (acoustic & electric guitars); Barry Reynolds (electric & slide guitars, piano); Daniel Lanois (guitar, organ, bass, drums, percussion, loops); Victor Indrizzo (guitar); Novi Novog (viola); Stephanie File (cello); Glen Patscha (piano, organ, synthesizer, vibraphone, bass pedals); Roger Waters (bass synthesizer); Mark Howard (synthesizer, percussion, loops); Daryl Johnson (synthesizer, background vocals); Christopher Thomas (electric & double basses); Brian Blade, Danny Frankel (drums, percussion); Emmylou Harris (background vocals).
Recorded at The Teatro, Oxnard, California in July 1998.
It's been a long strange trip from Jagger to motorcycles to Lucy Jordan to the Weimar Republic for the ex-convent girl whose once virginal tones graced "As Tears Go By" and "This Little Bird." Maintaining a balance between folk and pop, she managed to score a couple of hits in the '60s before the drugs kicked in. Re-emerging with the acclaimed BROKEN ENGLISH at the end of the '70s (with huskier vocals that betrayed her turbulent lifestyle) Faithfull recorded a number of rock albums for Island before exploring the music of '20s Berlin with 20TH CENTURY BLUES.
She certainly bares her soul in the semi-autobiographical VAGABOND WAYS. In "Incarceration Of A Flower Child" the subject is "sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap wine." In the title track she sings "I drink and I take drugs, I love sex and I move around a lot." In the Cohen-esque "File It Under Fun From The Past" she pines for a lost love. The Leonard Cohen feel continues with a version of his "Tower Of Song." Faithfull has lived most of this at one time or another. You can hear it in her voice.