Audio CD review:
Marianne Faithfull - Come My Way

Marianne Faithfull - Come My Way

Band: Marianne Faithfull Title: Come My Way Rating: Release Date: 12 June, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Come My Way 2: Jabberwoc 3: Portland Town 4: House of the Rising Sun 5: Spanish Is a Loving Tongue 6: Fare Thee Well 7: Lonesome Travellers 8: Down in the Salley Garden 9: Mary Ann 10: Full Fathom Five 11: Four Strong Winds 12: Black Girl 13: Once I Had a Sweetheart 14: Bells of Freedom 15: Blowin' in the Wind 16: Et Maintenant (What Now My Love) 17: That's Right Baby 18: Sister Morphine

Customer Reviews Remember when you were young! But every artist has to begin somewhere! And for Marianne it is a good start as a young girl around 1965. Marianne Faithfull her most recent cd/dvd Live In Hollywood sounds very different from this cd Come My Way. This is a cd of folksongs. At the same day in 1965 the company also released the cd Marianne Faithfull, with popsongs. If you are a fan I advise you to buy both cd's and listen to the fine music: remember when you were young!. Not best "Come My Way" song version. The song has two versions. I bought this album for the hard to find song "Come My Way". The version on this album is straight guitar and Marianne Faithfull vocal. In my opinion the enhanced version with base guitar and lead guitar added is superior. That version is only on the Japanese version of Faithfull's album "North Country Maid". (also sold here. ) Interesting "raw" versions of other songs. Usual excellent amazon. com buying / shipping experience. Arrives ahead of their estimated arrival date. Traditional folk music from Marianne Now it is available as an American release with a different cover but an identical track listing - even including the four bonus tracks. This CD was released in Britain in 1989 but has long since been out of print. Of those four, only Blowing in the wind fits the folk theme of the main album. The main album is an uncompromising traditional folk album featuring sparse musical backing. Many of the songs are of the hand-me-down variety, their origins unknown, though some songs are familiar. Marianne recorded two completely separate versions of House of the rising sun. The one here is the folk version - she later recorded a version inspired by the Animals' hit version, which has a completely different arrangement. Lonesome traveller, Down by the Sally gardens and Four strong winds should also be familiar to folk fans. Of the obscure songs, Portland town should bring a lump to the throat - it is a very sad song about a mother who had three sons, all of whom became soldiers and all of whom were killed in combat. The bonus tracks include What now my love, a song of French origin, and Sister morphine, a song about drugs that was recorded four years later, and which provides a stark contrast with the rest of this collection. Marianne began her career as a really happy, smiling person, illustrated on the original album cover and the British version of this CD. Marianne soon became disillusioned and unhappy. As a result of those experiences, the music she recorded in the seventies and beyond was very different but also brilliant in its own way. So, this album features Marianne singing (for the most part) traditional folk music. If you want her pop music, you must look elsewhere. For folkies, this is a real treasure trove not to be missed, together with North country maid, a similar type of album. . You can see a complete list of all Marianne Faithfull discography, or go back to the Marianne Faithfull tabs