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In 1971, Marianne was living on the streets of London, when her Decca producer, Mike Leander, put her up in a flat and produced sessions for an album of songs by contemporary singer-songwriters. Recording took place at Trident Studios and a test pressing of Dylan’s ‘It’s all Over Now Baby Blue’, was made for a potential single before the project as shelved. Originally to be called Masques, the album was finally released (with an alternate running order) as Rich Kid Blues in 1985. Although Marianne disliked the album for many years, she came to appreciate its fragile power, recognising it as “the missing link between my early work and Broken English”.  A number of the album’s tracks crept back into Marianne’s live repertoire over the years, and ‘It’s all Over Now Baby Blue’’ was even re-recorded for the 2018 album, Negative Capability. The album has been re-issued a number of times over the years but always with a cover image from the wrong era. The most recent on Demon in 2017 came close with an photo from 1974.

The original Masques L.P. ran:

1. Chords of Fame
2. Beware of Darkness
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
4. Long Black Veil
5. Sad Lisa
6. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
7. Mud Slide Slim
8. Corrine, Corrina
9. Southern Butterfly
10. Visions of Johanna
11. Rich Kid Blues
12. Crazy Lady Blues