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Marianne Faithfull, and a bit of the Decemberists

From David Letterman, just over two years ago, Faithfull with a cover of the Decemberists' tune The Crane Wife 3. A great match.

The return of Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is now 64, and she has a new record coming out. This is great news to read: I love it that she and others of her generation are still making interesting, provocative and great-sounding records. Click here to read an interview in The Independent in which Faithfull lays out quite a bit about her private life, including depression and a recent addiction to sleeping pills ... and, yes, the inevitable questions about having been a junkie and Mick Jagger's ex.

One of her points:

"My entire back catalogue, pretty much, has been undervalued and overlooked. Even Broken English. When they compiled the 100 best records of the century back in 2000, Broken English was nowhere to be seen." She snorts. "Which I think was just absurd."

I completely agree. Right now to the snort.