pYou'd be amazed at the number of famous folks it takes to make a a href="http://www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk/"strongMarianne Faithfull/strong/a album these days; amazed and delighted./p pQuite a crew went into crafting emEasy Come, Easy Go/em, the British songstress' 22nd LP, due January 19 from a href="http://www.umtv.co.uk"strongUMTV/strong/a though available now through iTunes in Europe./p pThe disc was laid down at New York's Sear Sound in December of 2007 with producer Hal Willner and a crack band comprised of Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Rob Burger, Barry Reynolds and the Dirty Three's Jim White. On emEasy Come, Easy Go/em, Marianne is joined on vocals by the likes of Nick Cave, Chan Marshall of Cat Power, Jarvis Cocker, Antony Hegarty, Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright and close fam Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Cave's Bad Seeds bandmate Warren Ellis lends violin to three tracks, and Sean Lennon and Teddy Thompson play a little guitar on the record as well./p pThe collection of covers finds Ms. Faithfull taking on the likes of the Decemberists' "The Crane Wife 3", Morrissey's "Dear God Please Help Me", Neko Case's "Hold On, Hold On", Espers' "Children of Stone", Brian Eno's "How Many Worlds", Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's "Salvation", Dolly Parton's "Down From Dover", Bessie Smith's "Easy Come Easy Go Blue", Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home", and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby", among others.br /br /In the spring, Faithfull and the emEasy Come, Easy Go/em sessions band will hit "the main capital cities of Europe," according to a press release, to recreate the record and take a trip through her extensive back catalog. Faithfull also has a few dates scheduled over the next several months, where she'll be performing "The Shakespeare Love Sonnets" with cellist Vincent Segal. Those dates are below the jump.br /br //ppa href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147502" target="_blank"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/IN7QLFC66F_anv8vIaIZkRtv5cA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/IN7QLFC66F_anv8vIaIZkRtv5cA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/fCJquYD0QWg" height="1" width="1"/

This is another brilliant Adam Curtis documentary (60 min) originally produced for the BBC. It talks about the modern political realities, where the policies came from and the massive failures of those ideals and how they have ended up exactly where they did not want to be. This episode starts in the Cold War and shows the seeds that were sown to produce the modern political reality.