Easy Come Easy Go

Description

Singer Marianne Faithfull previously collaborated with producer Hal Willner on her iconic 1987 album Strange Weather, and the partnership feels equally natural and effortless on this album. Like Strange Weather, Easy Come Easy Go is a collection of covers, featuring Faithfull in different musical settings and tackling songs by everyone from Merle Haggard to Smokey Robinson, Duke Ellington, Randy Newman, the Decemberists, and Morrissey. The guest list includes 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 outing features old friends like Marc Ribot and Greg Cohen, along with drummer Jim White, Rob Burger, Doug Weiselman, Steve Weisberg, Barry Reynolds, Steven Bernstein, Marty Ehrlich, and Lenny Pickett. The sense of stylistic expansion over these 12 songs is incredible. For example, the album’s first song, a cover of Dolly Parton’s "Down from Dover," features the entire band and 18 guests! Faithfull’s whiskey-and-cigarette-ravaged voice is in fine form, taking you on journeys through love, lust, tragedy, and longing, before bringing you back home again.