Released on January 19th through UMTV (and available right now on iTunes) the sixties chanteuse has a stellar cast at hand for her new two disc set, Easy Come, Easy Go.

The album was recorded in December 2007 with the help of producer Hal Willner and a session band made up of Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Rob Burger, Barry Reynolds and the Dirty Three's Jim White. Lending vocal support on duet duties are Nick Cave, Chan Marshall, Jarvis Cocker, Antony Hegarty, Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright and the latter's family Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Further musical support comes courtesy of Bad Seeds man Warren Ellis supplying the violin treatments on three tracks, with Sean Lennon and Teddy Thompson chipping in some guitar also.

The press release outlines that Faithfull and her session band from the album will play a series of dates in Europe's main capital cities in order to recreate the album and dust off tracks from her own back catalogue.

Easy Come, Easy Go tracklisting, original artist denoted by the rounded brackets, contributing artist to the cover contained within the square brackets.

Disc one:

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

Disc two:

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

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