Marianne Faithfull: Easy Come, Easy Go

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog Sound Check: "There's no escaping the grit in Marianne Faithfull's voice. It's the accumulated experience of 45 years in the public eye. … Faithfull presides over an … illustrious crew on her latest … an album as engrossing as it is sometimes unsettling. The arrangements are stocked with woodwinds and subtle brass and strings, in addition to guitar, bass and drums. Her sultry alto has grown deeper and more weathered. … The older songs are more or less what you might expect: She ably handles Dolly Parton's 'Down From Dover' with a rueful air. … Teddy Thompson assists with his supple tenor. Contributions also come here and there from Cave, Sean Lennon, Antony Hagerty, Chan Marshall, Rufus Wainwright and, by no means least, one Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones guitarist helps bring the album, and Faithfull's career, full-circle with his grizzled vocals on Merle Haggard's 'Sing Me Back Home' — a song Faithfull learned from Richards. They harmonize slowly, like old lovers swaying on the dance floor one last time, and it's poignant and powerful."