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Tom Waits Saves Orphans

THURSDAY AUGUST 17 2006 7:00 PM

Submitted by Colin_ORegan. Edited By Colin_ORegan.

TAGS: Tom Waits, Anti, Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards, Boxset

Tom Waits, fresh off his mini tour, is set to release a new box set entitled: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. The 3 disk set is set to include 54 tracks, 30 of which are new, with a 94 page accompanying booklet. The set is broken up into three parts: (1) Brawlers: raucuous blues and juke joint stompers; (2) Bawlers: ballads, waltzes and lullabies; (3) Bastards: experimental.

Tom spoke about the collection:

Orphans are rough and tender tunes. Rhumbas about mermaids, shuffles about trainwrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigrals about drowning,� says Waits. �Scared, mean, orphans songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don�t bite, they just need attention.

The mix of rare and new is due November 21st on Anti records. Amongst tracks originally intended for stage or screen, Waits has included his own interpretations of some works by The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, Leadbelly, Kerouac and Bukowski.

Here is the tracklisitng:

BRAWLERS
01. Lie To Me
02. LowDown
03. 2:19
04. Fish In The Jailhouse
05. Bottom Of The World
06. Lucinda
07. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
08. Lord I've Been Changed
09. Puttin' On The Dog
10. Road To Peace
11. All The Time
12. The Return Of Jackie and Judy
13. Walk Away
14. Sea Of Love
15. Buzz Fledderjohn
16. Rains On Me

BAWLERS
01. Bend Down The Branches
02. You Can Never Hold Back Spring
03. Long Way Home
04. Widow's Grove
05. Little Drop Of Poison
06. Shiny Things
07. World Keeps Turning
08. Tell It To Me
09. Never Let Go
10. Fannin Street
11. Little Man
12. It's Over
13. If I Have To Go
14. Goodnight Irene
15. The Fall Of Troy
16. Take Care Of All My Children
17. Down There By The Train
18. Danny Says
19. Jayne's Blue Wish
20. Young At Heart

BASTARDS
01. What Keeps Mankind Alive
02. Children's Story
03. Heigh Ho
04. Army Ants
05. Books Of Moses
06. Bone Chain
07. Two Sisters
08. First Kiss
09. Dog Door
10. Redrum
11. Nirvana
12. Home I'll Never Be
13. Poor Little Lamb
14. Altar Boy
15. The Pontiac
16. Spidey's Wild Ride
17. King Kong
18. On The Road

Your pick...
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18 Comments

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foshizzle

Minneapolis, MN

May 2003

AUG 17, 2006 07:16 PM

Hell yes!

BrokeAccount

United Kingdom

August 2005

AUG 17, 2006 07:18 PM

This whole thing gives me a hard on.

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

AUG 17, 2006 07:23 PM

13. Poor Little Lambjavascript:insertFormat('url');

Waits joins the information age.

Goblintcat

Lennoxville, QC

May 2005

AUG 17, 2006 07:29 PM

Can't wait!

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

AUG 17, 2006 08:07 PM

Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No Mo' is really a great track. Leadbelly song. Marianne Faithful does a good'un, too.

And King Kong, also great. From the Daniel Johnston tribute. Trippy. As. Fuck.

Strega

Minneapolis, MN

October 2005

AUG 17, 2006 09:59 PM

I am so excited about this. I can't wait.

Ziltoid

Australia

April 2006

AUG 17, 2006 10:07 PM

Fucking sweet.

NOW JUST COME AND FUCKING TOUR HERE MR. WAITS! JEEZ-LOUISE!

jake_lex

Lexington, KY

February 2003

AUG 17, 2006 10:09 PM

This is so mine.

Tom Fuckin' Waits, dude!

DaGhost

Ireland

December 2003

AUG 17, 2006 11:05 PM

I thought the title was;

Tom Waits to Save Orphans.

RedBstrd

Pomona, CA

April 2004

AUG 17, 2006 11:12 PM

03. Long Way Home

I think I need to change my boxers now.

MotherSuperior

Falfurrias, TX

March 2004

AUG 17, 2006 11:32 PM

I thought this was gonna be an article on a Tom Waits exploit of Bruce Dickinsonian proportion and further solidify why this man is one of my more prominent heroes, but I do declare. This is better.

kittenH

Scarborough, ON

May 2005

AUG 18, 2006 12:43 AM

oh HECK yes.

Tom is my favorite artist.

Even a BOOKLET?! What a smart man.

Now he just needs to tour AGAIN for this album. I need to see Tom live before I die.

BurialRabbits

Portland, OR

January 2004

AUG 18, 2006 03:05 AM

The photograph of Waits is gorgeous. Hail "fuck everybody else."

pmonkeyEsquire

Detroit, MI

May 2004

AUG 18, 2006 03:52 AM

I dunn know. I should be excited, but I haven't been impressed by anything he's done since Bone Machine. I mean, I used to love this guy. I saw him live on the Frank's Wild years tour (1987, kids!). But lately he sounds kinda schticky to me. Dont you think he's kinda schticky??? But we'll see, young people...

Oh, and the packaging for this is gonna be like an old cigar box. so thats kinda cool.