Vinyl Record

Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways

Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways on LP vinyl. A 1999 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1999

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1999 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Vagabond Ways is Marianne Faithfull in 1999 turning biography, literary instinct and late-night rock confession into one of her most quietly devastating records. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard, it arrived after A Secret Life and after decades in which Faithfull had already remade herself from 1960s ingénue into one of rock's great damaged narrators. The album feels close to the skin: title track memories, rueful survival, spiritual fatigue and unsentimental compassion move through arrangements that leave space around her cracked, commanding voice. Tower of Song places Leonard Cohen's writing inside her own weathered authority; Incarceration of a Flower Child draws from Roger Waters' late-1960s songbook; For Wanting You and Great Expectations deepen the feeling of a life being examined without apology. Vagabond Ways is not a comeback pose. It is the sound of an artist using scars as phrasing, not decoration.

Vagabond Ways matters because it catches Faithfull between her cabaret-noir reinventions and the collaborative 2000s that followed. In 1999 she made a record where autobiography, interpretation and producer atmosphere merge into a sober late-career self-portrait.

For collectors, Vagabond Ways is a crucial post-Broken English Faithfull title because it shows the mature voice in a focused studio setting. It rewards listeners who value mood, text and phrasing over obvious hooks, and it sits well beside Strange Weather and Before the Poison.

Noir-tinged adult rock with sparse production, rough-grained vocals, literary balladry, ambient guitar space, cabaret shadows and unsentimental emotional weight.

Recommended for: Marianne Faithfull listeners drawn to her mature voice; Collectors of late-1990s albums with literary rock atmosphere; Fans of Leonard Cohen, Daniel Lanois textures and nocturnal ballads.

What year was Vagabond Ways released? Vagabond Ways was released in 1999. Who produced Vagabond Ways? The album was produced by Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard, giving it a spacious and shadowed studio character. Which songwriters are connected to the album? The record includes material associated with Leonard Cohen, Roger Waters, Elton John and Bernie Taupin alongside Faithfull's own writing.