MARIANNE FAITHFULL : LIVE AT THE ROXY

1. Falling From Grace
2. Strange Weather
3. Tower Of Song
4. Conversation On A Bar Stool
5. Guilt
6. Blazing Away
7. Sister Morphine
8. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
9. Working Class Hero
10. When I Find My Life
11. As Tears Go By
12. Why'd Ya Do It?
13. I'll Keep It With Mine
14. The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
15. Times Square
16. Penthouse Serenade
17. Broken English

Label : no labrel

Venue : The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, USA

Recording Date : April 19th, 1990 (second show)

Length : 67:21

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Review : Uninspired solo performance of Marianne Faithfull live at The Roxy Theatre in 1990. Marianne is accompanied by Barry Reynolds on guitar and Fernando Saunders on bass. Excellent recording.

Concert Review (Los Angeles Times) : Marianne Faithfull has her Ravaged Survivor bit down pat, but the predictability didn’t lessen the power of her performance at the Roxy on Thursday. Hauling out songs by the big guns - Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Bono and the Edge, Lennon, Jagger and Richards, Waits and Brennan - the post-punk Piaf zeroed in on the heart of betrayal and despair. Her own cathartic confessions held their own, especially the confrontational “Why’d Ya Do It?,” whose graphic images she milked for every drop of shock value. Faithfull’s cracked, craggy voice has character to spare, but its range is narrow, and the minimal backing - just guitarist Barry Reynolds and bassist Fernando Saunders - tended toward the monochromatic. It held up well enough, though, to sustain Faithfull’s hour-plus guided tour of her special desolation row.