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Come My Way is the second studio album by Marianne. It was released simultaneously with the eponymous Marianne Faithfull on 15 April 1965 by Decca Records. Marianne wanted to record an LP based around tracks from the American folk revival that she had been performing in local folk clubs before she was signed. The album was produced and arranged by Jon Mark who would become an important figure in Marianne’s early career, he is joined on acoustic guitar by Big Jim Sullivan, one of the most in-demand and versatile studio musicians of the 60s, alongside John Paul Jones (later of Led Zeppelin) on bass. On tracks like ‘Mary Ann’ and ‘House Of The Rising Sun’, the trio achieve a frequently perfect blend of the folk revival sound infused with some unexpected jazz flourishes.

Other musical highlights include the title track that was specially written for the project with Jon Mark, ‘Spanish Is A Loving Tongue’ by the cowboy poet Charles Badger Clark and Marianne’s interpretation of the traditional songs ‘Once I Had A Sweetheart’ and ‘Fare Thee Well’ – the latter more than a match for Joan Baez’s version. The album’s spoken word recordings of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwock’ and ‘Full Fathom Five’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest came out of Marianne’s work with the Progress Theatre, a local theatrical group that she performed with before her recording career.

The album also makes its American debut in a new edition released in August has been remastered from the original tapes by the Grammy nominated Andrew Batt who also provides detailed sleevenotes which Marianne contributed to before her passing in January 2025. Despite the majority of the material being American in origin, Come My Way was Marianne’s only Decca album not released in any form in the United States.

Arranger: Jon Mark
Musicians: Marianne Faithfull, vocals; Jon Mark, guitar; Jim Sullivan, guitar; John Paul Jones, Bass