Marianne Faithfull Sings Kurt Weill
Genre-hopping singer Marianne Faithfull caps off a yearlong concert tour with pianist Paul Trueblood in this 1997 performance dominated by songs from German theatrical composer Kurt Weill's songbook. The set list includes "Alabama Song," "Pirate Jenny," "Bilbao Song," "Complainte de la Seine," "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Don't Forget Me," "Surabaya Johnny," "Street Singer's Farewell," and "If Love Were All."
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Marianne Faithfull
herself
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