THURSDAY, MAY 24: If there’s a female equivalent to the frayed, nicotine-and-brandy stained vocal chords of Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull is it. Once, long ago, Faithfull had a winsome voice that she used to make a name for herself singing fairly innocent folk/pop songs. Then, she met Mick Jagger—and if that doesn’t screw a person up, I don’t know what will. But being a relative to Venus in Furs author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch wouldn’t help matters, either. Shedding a good deal of innocence—while doing a boatload of drugs—Faithfull wrote the lyrics to one of the Rolling Stones’ best songs, “Sister Morphine,” but the Stones didn’t even credit her. Fast forward through the ’70s, lots of drugs and then a landmark album—and then a few years still, when, like Waits himself, she found Kurt Weill. It was a good thing: time had taken 40-grit sandpaper to her throat, and by then she out-Lotte Lenya’ed Lotte Lenya, becoming one of this day’s greatest interpreters of Weimar Germany’s musical genius. (GG)

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