Marianne Faithfull will perform her 1999 album. Vagabond WaysThe deluxe edition will be available with a reissue in March. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s “Incarceration of a Flower Child,”This is a song Roger Waters composed in 1968, but it was never recorded by Pink Floyd.
Faithfull sings the demo to a background of acoustic guitars, and one buzzy electronic as she describes a scene where she drinks cheap wine while smoking dope on Indian tapestry cushiones. “Don’t get up to answer the door, just stay with me here on the floor,”She belts. “It’s going to get cold in the Seventies.”The studio versionThis appeared on Vagabond Ways Sounds more polished due to Mark Howard’s electronics and Waters’s synth bass.
Other previously unreleased demos will be included, as well as an uncirculated studio recording and new liner note. This record will be released on vinyl for first time, as well as digital and CD reissues.
This bonus material contains “Blood in My Eyes,”A Bob Dylan cover, previously on the Japanese edition. “Drifting,”A song Faithfull recorded and co-produced with Daniel Lanois, but it was never released. You will also find demos of “Vagabond Ways,” “Electra,” and her cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” and Waters’ “Incarceration.”
In 2014, she thought back on her long-lasting friendship with Waters Rolling Stone feature, when she recorded another one by him. “Sparrows Will Sing,” for her London: Give My Love album. “He’s one of my dearest friends, and I love him and he’s everything a real gentleman rock star should be,”She said. “He’s not a misogynist. He is not only in it for the money. He is a great man.”