Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could hear all of her history -- unspecific but unmistakable -- in her voice. No one can sing like Faithfull without deep scars. Not many can live as she has and survive. So she goes carefully now, learning how to hold tight and still let go. Listen to her latest Island album, Strange Weather, a critical favorite and a steady seller. That is evidence enough...
...another," she says. "We're both very much connected. I sing about my feelings and my truth." She has written some fine songs in the past, including (uncredited until 1984) the Stones' Sister Morphine, a jagged bit of Faithfull autobiography, and three cuts on her formidable 1979 album Broken English. But on Strange Weather she has put together a self-portrait from random sketches by such diverse artists as Jerome Kern and Bob Dylan. She makes the Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern Yesterdays into a devastating diary of faded hope and turns Dylan's superb I'll Keep It with Mine into...
...Each weekend we would find ten songs we would want to record." They also found a common thread in all the material. "There are a lot of songs about being alienated, about being a stranger," Faithfull says, and she dipped back into her own past for one of the album's most memorable cuts, a spare and unsparing remake of the Stones' As Tears Go By. "I always had a resentment toward it," she admits. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song." This new version captures the song's melancholy, its strangeness...
...music belies her, but in conversation she makes the process sound easy. She is planning a new album of her own rock songs and spends congenial time with her son Nicholas, now 21 and studying at Cambridge. After three successful and warming concert appearances in New York City right after Thanksgiving, Faithfull is even thinking about a small tour. If asked, she will consider seeing the Stones again ("I would like to see them, perhaps just once, to acknowledge my past, give it a bow"), but speaks with real respect and affection about the caring attention of her friend Island...
...left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave up. Two marriages shattered. Sometimes she would make an album or try a tour. Sometimes she beat her habit, and sometimes it beat her. Finally, after a fall down stairs, stoned, in 1985, a broken jaw and a period of rehabilitation, she thinks she may really be mending. She has been clean, she reports, for 18 months...