{"id":41670,"date":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/come-my-way\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"come-my-way","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/come-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Come My Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marianne Faithfull released two LPs in early 1965 that both delivered exactly what she wanted them to. Her first self-titled release created a platform from which the hit singles were lifted that sent Marianne to the top of the charts and gave her instant star status.\u00a0 The second album, Come My Way<\/i>, <\/i>was full of the traditional folk music that she was really interested in recording.\u00a0 Thanks to her newly enhanced profile, Decca was desperate for product and let her record the music she most loved from that point forward.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The album opens with the title-track, and it instantly shows Faithfull at her enchanting best. Her pure tones only enhance the material to a point where she actually makes them her own.\u00a0 \u201cJaberwoc\u201d is a wonderful British poem set to an acoustic track that Marianne weaves around with ease. \u201cPortland Town\u201d finds Faithfull singing at the top of her range, delivering the heartbreaking tale of a mother mourning her sons\u2019 deaths at the hands of war.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Marianne tackles \u201cThe House Of The Rising Sun\u201d with a cool confidence that belies her nineteen years. It is entirely different from The Animals\u2019 power blues rendition, but the sparse arrangement helps to focus on the lyric, which is what this entire album is all about.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

On classics like \u201cSpanish Is A Loving Tongue\u201d and \u201cFare Thee Well,\u201d Faithfull has no trouble holding her own, offering wonderful readings; the latter of which is a brilliant marriage of voice and words, making it a clear highlight. \u201cLonesome Travellers\u201d showcases Marianne\u2019s stunning vocal range, which would be greatly diminished as a result of her epic heroin addiction in later years.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The middle part of the album is made up of very short songs of love, loss, and the joys of childhood, all of which help to keep the album honest and Marianne glides through them with style and tenderness. The charming \u201cFour Strong Winds\u201d is the most \u201cpop\u201d of all the songs here.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t aged a bit, and Marianne has at times revisited it during her live sets.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Girl\u201d was the darkest song Faithfull recorded during her stint as a pop star\/folk singer until, of course, the angst-ridden violence of \u201cSister Morphine\u201d came along. It also offers a great insight into her interpretive nous that she would become famous for many years later. \u201cOnce I Had A Sweetheart\u201d and \u201cBells Of Freedom\u201d close the album out in style. They bring to the core Faithfull\u2019s rare talent and versatility, which is on display right throughout the album.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Come My Way <\/i>is a very focused work that would now rival any folk album of the day for classic status. It also served as a precursor to Faithfull\u2019s immediate career path, which saw her go on to become one of Britain\u2019s great folk singers of her time. Thanks to a 2006 re-mastered CD (released by Lilith), it sounds as fresh and vibrant today as it must have way back in 1965. This remains one of Marianne Faithfull\u2019s greatest and most eclectic recordings, a true classic.<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":30037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8317],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41670","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-marianne-faithfull","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41670"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}