Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album)

Strange Weather is a 1987 studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull, recorded after recovering from a 17-year addiction to heroin in 1986.

In contrast, Strange Weather is a striking mix of rock, blues and dark cabaret, and though none of the songs were written by Faithfull, all are tied together by the spare and nuanced production of Hal Willner, using a notable group of contributing musicians, such as Bill Frisell.

In 1985 Faithfull contributed a single track, "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife", to Lost in the Stars, a tribute to the music of Kurt Weill by various contemporary artists.

Just prior to her recovery, Faithfull began work on a new album of rock songs, but Island Records scrapped the project[5] Instead, Willner re-entered the picture and the concept of the album of classic standards was expanded to include not only material contemporary to Weill's Weimar Republic era but a more recent song by Bob Dylan, two early folk-era spirituals, traditional piano blues with accompaniment by Dr. John (credited as Mac Rebennack), and all new material was written specifically for the project.

Faithfull also re-recorded her 1964 hit "As Tears Go By" in a markedly different arrangement, using a slower tempo and sung a full octave lower than the original.