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Vagabond Ways is the 14th studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull.This is her first album of original material since A Secret Life (1994). This work, produced by Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard, is a balladry-like extension of her then neo-cabaret persona, interpreting songs by herself and legendary songwriters of her generation, like Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Leonard Cohen and the ...
Jan 20, 2022 · Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4.She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s ...
Vagabond Ways features songs Faithful co-wrote but also covers of others written by Leonard Cohen, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Roger Waters and Lanois. When released in 1999, Vagabond Ways was not the success that it deserved to be , but it holds up 23 years after it was initially released. Faithfull’s voice is in fine form.
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Mar 2, 2022 · Followed by Roger Waters penned Incarceration of a Flower Child, is a haunting emotional plea with Faithfull at her most impassioned, the track thematically feeling like a sequel to Sister Morphine. Some curious electronic effects in the final minute feel dated, but the timbre of Faithfull’s vocals is timeless.
But stop weeping-- Faithfull didn't record a version of "Time after Time" on Vagabond Ways. Instead, she's resorted to attacking Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song" and Roger Waters' previously ...
Don’t get up to open the door, just stay with me here on the floor, It’s gonna get cold in the 1970’s. You wouldn’t listen, you thought you knew better, you just to had to speak to that man. Please believe me, I’ll visit whenever I can. Laying in your little white room with no windows and three square sedations a day, You plead with ...
A one track CD single of ‘Electra’ was issued prior to the album’s release. Vagabond Ways was Marianne’s first album containing original material after a 5 year gap; in between which her autobiography Faithfull was released, as well as her recording of the Kurt Weill opera The Seven Deadly Sins. Many of the stories told on this album ...
