MARIANNE FAITHFULL RETURNS STATESIDE WITH A FALL U.S. TOUR
IN SUPPORT OF HER “STUNNING” (USA TODAY) ALBUM
EASY COME, EASY GO
IN STORES NOW (Decca/naïve)
(July 22, 2009—New York, NY) After a successful U.S. promotional visit with media coverage including; NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and World Café, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS Sunday Morning and a stellar performance at The City Winery in New York City, the iconic singer Marianne Faithfull returns for a major tour in support of her Decca debut Easy Come, Easy Go. The tour kicks off on September 24th at New York City’s Town Hall and continues throughout select cities until wrapping up in Jacksonville, FL on October 21st at the Florida Theatre. (See the complete list of tour dates below.) She will perform songs from her critically acclaimed new album Easy Come, Easy Go as well as dipping into the wealth of material from her expansive career.
Easy Come, Easy Go is a hauntingly beautiful, timeless collection of twelve popular songs reinterpreted in Marianne’s own unique style, and each personally selected by the artist herself. The record reunites Faithfull with producer Hal Willner in their first album-length collaboration since Strange Weather in 1987 (Hal also produced Marianne’s 1990 live set Blazing Away and three tracks on her 2005 release Before the Poison). Faithful, along with Willner, poured over nearly a century of pop music in choosing the songs for Easy Come, Easy Go. Billie Holiday’s brooding classic “Solitude” and Merle Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home” blend seamlessly with contemporary songs such as Espers’ “Children Of Stone,” Morrissey’s “Dear God Please Help Me,” and The Decemberists’ “The Crane Wife 3.”
The album received a massive amount of praise with major features in Interview Magazine, Black Book and BLURT to name a few. USA Today stated the album was “masterful” and “stunning” while Rolling Stone affirmed that “Marianne Faithfull confirms her status as matriarch on this brilliantly programmed covers set.”
In concert Marianne Faithfull creates an intimate feeling with a unique quality of transforming lyrics into seemingly personal moments that captivate the audience. Watch Marianne's recent appearance on Letterman with her amazing band performing one of the tracks from Easy Come Easy Go called The Crane Wife 3 by US indie band the Decembrists
Tour Dates
September 24th New York, NY Town Hall Theatre
September 26th New Bedford, MA Zeiterion Perf. Arts Center
September 28th Annapolis, MD Rams Head
September 29th Alexandria, VA Birchmere Music Hall
October 3rd Los Angeles, CA Royce Hall
October 4th San Francisco, CA Hardly Strictly Bluegrass/ Golden Gate Park
October 12th Minneapolis, MN Guthrie Theatre
October 15th Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
October 16th Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
October 17th Nashville, TN James K. Polk Theatre
October 20th Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
October 21st Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
SEE MORE OF WHAT THE U.S. MEDIA HAS TO SAY ABOUT MARIANNE FAITHFULL
“…masterful…” “…stunning…” “3 ½ stars out of 4”—USA Today
“..one of the best albums of her career…” –Interview Magazine
“Marianne Faithfull confirms her status as matriarch on this brilliantly programmed covers set.” “4 stars”—Rolling Stone
“…one of the coolest collections of covers we’ve heard...” “3 out of 4 stars”
—People
“…gratifyingly intimate…the production is gorgeous…”
—Entertainment Weekly
“…beautifully haunting…” “4 stars”—Los Angeles Times
“Icon… Musician… Survivor…” –Black Book
“This new recording is richer and more daring in its arrangements and choice of material.”
–Billboard
“…the triumph is all Faithfull’s…” “3 ½ out of 4 stars”—Philadelphia Inquirer
“A- …one of this year’s finest, most understated albums.” “…hypnotic…”
—Salt Lake Tribune
“She appears today as nothing less than a musical giant…”—BLURT