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Easy Come, Easy Go (Marianne Faithfull album)

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Recorded
  
Sear Sound Studio, NYC

Release date
  
10 November 2008

Label
  
Naïve

Artist
  
Marianne Faithfull

Producer
  
Hal Willner

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Released
  
10 November 2008 (EU) 14 February 2009 (AUS) 16 March 2009 (UK) 17 March 2009 (US)

Easy Come, Easy Go (2008)
  
Horses and High Heels (2011)

Genres
  
Easy listening, Alternative/Indie, Rock, Pop

Similar
  
Marianne Faithfull albums, Other albums

Easy Come, Easy Go is a studio album of cover versions by English singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull, which was released in the EU on 10 November 2008. The album is produced by Hal Willner and features guest appearances from a variety of musicians. It was released as both a standard 10-track CD and a special 18-track edition with a DVD documentary by Anne Rohart under Jean-Baptiste Mondino's artistic direction, with both Faithfull and Wilner commenting on the song selection. A collectible 2-disc vinyl pressing is also available. The album was recorded with Pro Tools in NYC at the Sear Sound Studio.

Contents

Release

The EU release on Naive was 10 November 2008.

The album has so far peaked at #100 on the UK Albums Chart as reported on The Official UK Chart Company website on 23 March 2009 and became her first album to chart on the U.S Billboard 200 chart since 1990. The album peaked #23 at Australian Top 50 Jazz & Blues Album Year End Chart.

Track listing

Disc 1:

  1. "Down from Dover" (originally by Dolly Parton)
  2. "Hold On, Hold On", with Cat Power (originally by Neko Case)
  3. "Solitude" (originally by Duke Ellington & Eddie DeLange)
  4. "The Crane Wife 3", with Nick Cave (originally by The Decemberists)
  5. "Easy Come, Easy Go" (originally by Bessie Smith)
  6. "Children of Stone", with Rufus Wainwright (originally by Espers)
  7. "How Many Worlds", with Teddy Thompson (originally by Brian Eno)
  8. "In Germany Before the War" (originally by Randy Newman)
  9. "Ooh Baby Baby", with Antony Hegarty (originally by Smokey Robinson)
  10. "Sing Me Back Home", with Keith Richards (originally by Merle Haggard)

Disc 2:

  1. "Salvation", with Sean Lennon (originally by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
  2. "Black Coffee" (originally by Sarah Vaughan)
  3. "The Phoenix", with Kate & Anna McGarrigle (originally by Judee Sill)
  4. "Dear God Please Help Me" (originally by Morrissey)
  5. "Kimbie" (originally by Jackson C. Frank)
  6. "Many a Mile to Freedom", with Jenni Muldaur (originally by Traffic)
  7. "Somewhere (A Place for Us)", with Jarvis Cocker (originally by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)
  8. "Flandyke Shore", with Kate & Anna McGarrigle (traditional, also sung by Nic Jones)

Personnel

  • Producer - Hal Willner

    • Musicians:

  • Barry Reynolds
  • Greg Cohen
  • Marc Ribot
  • Jim White
  • Rob Burger

    • Cover Photography and Art Direction:

  • Jean-Baptiste Mondino

    • Songs

    1Down from Dover4:44
    2Hold on Hold On (feat Chan Marshall - Sean Lennon)Sean Lennon - Cat Power2:59
    3Solitude5:25

    References

    Easy Come, Easy Go (Marianne Faithfull album) Wikipedia
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