For the next 20 years, Faithfull released many albums, many of them such as
Strange Weather and
Vagabond Ways, explored some of the themes as
Broken English, but in 2000, she recorded an album of the Bertolt Brecht opera
The Seven Deadly Sins, and in 2004, appeared onstage in San Francisco in the musical "The Black Rider". She is currently on tour for her latest album,
Before The Poison,which features songs written with PJ Harvey, Jon Brion, Nick Cave and Damon Albarn of Blur.
Faithfull's recent concert at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles served as sort of a retrospective of her forty year career. Dressed in a black pantsuit, she glances at the lyric sheet on her music stand and slips on her reading glasses, commenting that she's given up her vices, and "my glasses are all I have." Faithfull performed songs from all eras of her career, including
Incarceration Of A Flower Child "Roger Waters says this song is about a breakup of a marriage, but I think it's about Syd Barret,"she said in her introduction. The concert ended with the powerful combination of
Broken English and
Why'd Ya Do It?. Faithfull's vocal delivery, at 58, retains all the haunting power she had earlier in her career.
