Pitchfork

You'd be amazed at the number of famous folks it takes to make a Marianne Faithfull album these days; amazed and delighted.

Quite a crew went into crafting Easy Come, Easy Go, the British songstress' 22nd LP, due January 19 from UMTV though available now through iTunes in Europe.

The disc was laid down at New York's Sear Sound in December of 2007 with producer Hal Willner and a crack band comprised of Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Rob Burger, Barry Reynolds and the Dirty Three's Jim White. On Easy Come, Easy Go, Marianne is joined on vocals by the likes of Nick Cave, Chan Marshall of Cat Power, Jarvis Cocker, Antony Hegarty, Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright and close fam Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Cave's Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis lends violin to three tracks, and Sean Lennon and Teddy Thompson play a little guitar on the record as well.

The collection of covers finds Ms. Faithfull taking on the likes of the Decemberists' "The Crane Wife 3", Morrissey's "Dear God Please Help Me", Neko Case's "Hold On, Hold On", Espers' "Children of Stone", Brian Eno's "How Many Worlds", Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "Salvation", Dolly Parton's "Down From Dover", Bessie Smith's "Easy Come Easy Go Blue", Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home", and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby", among others.

In the spring, Faithfull and the Easy Come, Easy Go sessions band will hit "the main capital cities of Europe," according to a press release, to recreate the record and take a trip through her extensive back catalog. Faithfull also has a few dates scheduled over the next several months, where she'll be performing "The Shakespeare Love Sonnets" with cellist Vincent Segal. Those dates are below the jump.



Easy Come, Easy Go disc one:

01 Down From Dover (Dolly Parton)
02 Hold On, Hold On (Neko Case) [ft. Chan Marshall and Sean Lennon]
03 Solitude (Billie Holiday)
04 The Crane Wife 3 (The Decemberists) [ft. Nick Cave]
05 Easy Come, Easy Go (Bessie Smith)
06 Children of Stone (Espers) [ft. Rufus Wainwright]
07 How Many Worlds (Brian Eno) [ft. Teddy Thompson]
08 In Germany Before the War (Randy Newman)
09 Ooh Baby Baby (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) [ft. Antony Hegarty]
10 Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard) [ft. Keith Richards]

Easy Come, Easy Go disc two:

01 Salvation (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) [ft. Sean Lennon]
02 Black Coffee (Sarah Vaughn)
03 The Phoenix (Judee Sill) [ft. Sean Lennon]
04 Dear God Please Help Me (Morrissey)
05 Kimbie (Jackson C. Frank)
06 Many a Mile to Freedom (Traffic)
07 Somewhere (a Place for Us) (Bernstein/Sondheim) [ft.  Jarvis Cocker]
08 Flandyke Shore (traditional) [ft. Kate and Anna McGarrigle]

Marianne Faithfull:

12-06 Reims, France - La Comedie
12-09 Geneva, Switzerland - Comedie
02-06 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Theatre National de Luxembourg
02-07 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Theatre National de Luxembourg