{"id":3091,"date":"2023-11-28T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:29:18","slug":"tammy-faye-starlites-the-ballad-of-lucy-jordan-out-from-the-faithful-a-tribute-to-marianne-faithfull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/tammy-faye-starlites-the-ballad-of-lucy-jordan-out-from-the-faithful-a-tribute-to-marianne-faithfull\/","title":{"rendered":"TAMMY FAYE STARLITE\u2019S \u201cTHE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN\u201d OUT FROM THE FAITHFUL: A TRIBUTE TO MARIANNE FAITHFULL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VIDEO OUT NOW; PANGEA PERFORMANCE SET FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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News item from the current issue of\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>:\u00a0\u201cTwo years ago, Marianne Faithfull told Rolling Stone about her ongoing battle with Covid-19. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d she said. \u201cI got long-term Covid, where you get better from the virus, but you have leftover [symptoms]. Apparently, they now think that you do get better from long-term Covid; it\u2019s not forever. That is good.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0To help Faithfull with mounting health costs, more than a dozen artists have recorded covers of songs for a benefit album,\u00a0The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, for her. Cat Power and Iggy Pop\u00a0teamed to recreate her uniquely cutting rendition of John Lennon\u2019s \u201cWorking Class Hero,\u201d Shirley Manson and Peaches collaborated on the bawdy \u201cWhy\u2019d Ya Do It,\u201d and Lydia Lunch recorded \u201cLove, Life, and Money.\u201d Guitarist Barry Reynolds, who played on Faithfull\u2019s\u00a0Broken English\u00a0album, joined Tammy Faye Starlite for\u00a0Broken English\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Ballad of Lucy Jordan.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0In light of this, we thought to offer Tammy Faye\u2019s video for \u201cThe Ballad of Lucy Jordan\u201d and encourage you to share it.\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pjnc7lkQj60?si=EB17iPvpltwr8k3a<\/a>\u00a0The song is, of course, one of the cornerstones of Faithfull\u2019s groundbreaking\u00a0Broken English<\/em>\u00a0album. Tammy, who has portrayed Marianne Faithfull in numerous performance pieces, worked with Barry Reynolds who had a hand in writing half of the album\u2019s tracks including the title song.\u00a0\u00a0\u201c..Lucy Jordan\u201d was written by Shel Silverstein, the author, poet,\u00a0cartoonist, playwright and Grammy-winning songwriter. He was\u00a0responsible for a range of innovative hits for a widely diverse array of talented performers including Johnny Cash (\u201cA Boy Named Sue\u201d) Dr. Hook (\u201cThe Cover of \u2018Rolling Stone\u2019,\u201d \u201cSylvia\u2019s Mother\u201d), Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Judy Collins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The video was directed by\u00a0Michael Schiralli with the aforementioned Reynolds providing instrumental accompaniment.\u00a0\u00a0Schiralli, who has worked with Tammy Faye numerous times in the past on her portrayals of both Faithful and Nico, is directing the latest production of\u00a0She\u2019s a Rainbow: Marianne Faithfull Sings the Songs She Inspired \u2013 A Cabaret Fantasia Revisited (Part 2 of the CS Blues Series)<\/em>\u00a0that returns to Pangea for one performance on Friday, December 22. Last month\u2019s performance of the piece sold out two months in advance, so those hoping to bear witness will be well advised to purchase tickets as soon as possible.\u00a0Ticket link, <\/a>More about\u00a0<\/strong>She\u2019s A Rainbow: Marianne Faithfull Sings the Songs She Inspired \u2013 A Cabaret Fantasia Revisited (Part 2 of the CS Blues Series)<\/strong><\/em>\u201c..(Starlite\u2019s) mastery of Ms. Faithfull\u2019s singing voice is extraordinary, down to the tremolo that punctuates some words like a stifled sob.\u201d \u2013 Elizabeth Vincentelli\/NY Times\u00a0Pangea, New York\u2019s most celebrated intimate avantgarde venue, hosts Tammy Faye Starlite for an encore engagement of her new performance piece focused on the music,\u00a0life and struggles of legendary British vocalist and cultural icon Marianne Faithfull. Her earlier portrayal of Faithfull, performing the landmark album\u00a0Broken English,<\/em>\u00a0was described by Rolling Stone\u2019s David Fricke as \u201ca thoroughly modern tale of adventure, abyss and hard-won vengeance \u2014 one of the most brutally frank albums of its time, made flesh again, in poignant lethally honest character.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0December 22 marks the return of Starlite\u2019s latest conceptual piece:\u00a0She\u2019s A Rainbow: Marianne Faithfull Sings The Songs She Inspired<\/em>, subtitled\u00a0A Cabaret Fantasia Revisited (Part 2 of The CS Blues Series).\u00a0<\/em>The show, tickets for which are now available, is described as \u201cMarianne Faithfull (manque) sings the songs that were written for and\/or about her, ostensibly by other (less erudite)\u00a0songwriters, but really through the\u00a0prism of her dreams via uninvited\u00a0intrusion into her\u00a0unconscious mind.\u00a0She will also perform some of her more well-known covers and perhaps she will tolerate\u00a0a revisitation from a familiar phantom –\u00a0all in the service of expanding upon the\u00a0theme\u00a0of\u00a0identity, with\u00a0spare\u00a0arrangements suitable for the medium of cabaret\u00a0(which is also\u00a0Marianne\u2019s sobriquet). Keys change, tunings melt, myths vanish. She\u00a0might become someone else in the process, who knows. She comes in tears and horses.\u201d\u00a0The show is directed by Michael Schiralli with musical backing by Richard Feridun, Joe McGinty, Jared Michael Nickerson, and Barry Reynolds, the latter of whom was Marianne Faithfull\u2019s most constant later career collaborator having had a hand in writing half of the\u00a0Broken English<\/em>\u00a0repertoire.\u00a0Praise for Tammy Faye Starlite\u2019s portrayal of Marianne Faithfull\u00a0\u201cTammy Faye Starlite’s channeling of Marianne Faithfull is not so much tribute as celebration. She assumes Marianne’s persona with a sly and respectful humoresque, inhabiting the songs, constructing a virtual biography that interprets and reveals the inner artist who created\u00a0Broken English<\/em>, whose tale is one of triumph and transcendence Tammy’s resurrection is yet another life unfolding, in a performance that bares the soul and touches the heart.\u201d – Lenny Kaye\/Author of\u00a0You Call It Madness<\/em>\/Little Steven\u2019s Underground Garage SiriusXM\u00a0\u201cTammy Faye Starlite’s performance of Marianne Faithfull’s\u00a0Broken English\u00a0<\/em>in Why’d You Do It? channels all of that album’s terror, ferocity and vulnerability — and then some. \u2026her portrayal has grown more passionate, more visceral, more provocative, more unnerving. The lines between the two women fracture, and the result is shattering — and profoundly moving.\u201d – Anthony DeCurtis\/ Author of\u00a0Lou Reed: A Life<\/em>\u00a0\u201c..brilliantly inhabits the outsized persona of Marianne Faithfull\u2026. (an) alternately stark and darkly funny performance\u2026.\u201d – Steve Futterman\/The New Yorker\u00a0\u201cHaving produced many records with Marianne as well as being a close friend for 34 years, I was reluctant to see Tammy Faye as Marianne. I have to admit that I was astonished as Tammy does not imitate Marianne at all. She totally captures the feeling of being with her which is an amazing achievement… and the audience went apeshit. So, what can I say? Just go\u2026 Tammy Faye got it right.”\u00a0– Hal Willner\/legendary music producer\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSo here in 2019 we were blessed (or perhaps damned?) to have Tammy Faye Starlite replicate this ground-breaking album, a tour de force performance of the comeback of a major artist…Tammy Faye morphs into Marianne with vigor, rage, savagery. And songs are interspersed with often hilarious or, more often, scary catatonic rants about fucking anything that comes to mind. Now that I have been exposed to the unsurpassable talent of Tammy Faye Starlite it is my intention to keep her sharply on the radar.\u201d\u00a0– Steve Nardoni\/Theater Pizzazz\u00a0\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VIDEO OUT NOW; PANGEA PERFORMANCE SET FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 News item from the current issue of\u00a0Rolling Stone:\u00a0\u201cTwo years ago, Marianne Faithfull told Rolling Stone about her ongoing battle with Covid-19. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d she said.… <\/p>\n

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