Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-3298
Style: Folk Rock, Ballad
Country: London, England (29 December 1946)
Time: 42:49
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 256 Mb
North Country Maid is the third studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull. It was released only in the United Kingdom. The arrangements were by Jon Mark and Mick Taylor. Gus Dudgeon was the engineer and Gered Mankowitz was the photographer. The guitarists included Jon Mark and Big Jim Sullivan.
Half of the songs had been released months earlier in the United States on the album Go Away from My World.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Country_Maid)
Faithfull was still known primarily as a pop singer when she put out North Country Maid, but this is in fact very close to a pure folk album, with a bit of influence from pop, rock, blues, and jazz. Largely overlooked even by Faithfull fans, it's actually a quite respectable effort, and probably her best LP (other than greatest-hits compilations) from the time when her voice was still on the high side. Ably backed by sessionmen including guitarists Jon Mark and Jim Sullivan, she interprets mostly traditional material on this record, including "She Moved Through the Fair," "Wild Mountain Thyme," "Sally Free and Easy," and "Scarborough Fair." There are some mid-'60s covers too, though, including Donovan's "Sunny Goodge Street" and Tom Paxton's "Last Thing on My Mind." Sometimes, when the bass gets prominent and the arrangements swing, this isn't too far from early Pentangle, as unexpected as that comparison is. The use of sitar on "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Wild Mountain Thyme" is adventurous, and she sings pretty well throughout, with dignity and purity if not utmost imagination or grit. The 1990 CD reissue on Deram U.K. adds three worthwhile bonus tracks: "The Most of What Is Least" (from a 1965 EP) and alternate versions of "Come My Way" and "Mary Anne" (the originals of which had appeared on her 1965 album, Come My Way).
(allmusic.com/album/north-country-maid-mw0000711124)
01. Green Are Your Eyes (02:58)
02. Scarborough Fair (03:07)
03. Cockleshells (03:17)
04. The Last Thing On My Mind (02:17)
05. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (03:58)
06. Sally Free And Easy (02:52)
07. Sunny Goodge Street (03:21)
08. How Should I Your True Love Know (01:19)
09. She Moved Thu' The Fair (03:10)
10. North Country Maid (02:37)
11. Lullaby (02:42)
12. Wild Mountain Thyme (03:38)
13. The Most of what Is Least (bonus track mono) (03:03)
14. Come My Way (bonus track) (02:30)
15. Mary Ann (bonus track) (01:57)
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