Tom Waits - Brawlers - VINYL LP

Bawlers, on the surface, is every bit as soothing as Brawlers is abrasive. But for all the gentle piano and brass embellishments, the mood is far from serene, inhabiting the bittersweet, sentimental borderline between a bender and hangover. Given that this sound goes back to Waits' earliest days, the timeframe is wider here than elsewhere in the set, yet it holds together with a late-night woozy consistency while veering from AM-radio jazz (InchYou Can Never Hold Back SpringInch) to folk (InchWidow's GroveInch), and intimate (InchWorld Keeps TurningInch) to show-stoppingly anthemic (InchNever Let GoInch, InchDown There By the TrainInch). More than any other disc, Bawlers is proof that Waits can pull these kind of nightclub-act songs out of his derby hat at will, able to channel the archetypal piano-man character with minimal effort. Album Tracks 1. Bend Down the Branches (Remastered) 2. You Can Never Hold Back Spring (Remastered) 3. Long Way Home (Remastered) 4. Widow's Grove (Remastered) 5. Little Drop of Poison (Remastered) 6. Shiny Things (Remastered) 1. World Keeps Turning (Remastered) 2. Tell It to Me (Remastered) 3. Never Let Go (Remastered) 4. Fannin Street (Remastered) 1. Little Man (Remastered) 2. It's Over (Remastered) 3. If I Have to Go (Remastered) 4. Goodnight Irene (Remastered) 5. The Fall of Troy (Remastered) 1. Take Care of All My Children (Remastered) 2. Down There By the Train (Remastered) 3. Danny Says (Remastered) 4. Jayne's Blue Wish (Remastered) 5. Young at Heart (Remastered)

The collection of 56 songs went far beyond a simple career retrospective. It dipped back as far as 1984 with the bulk of it's songs hailing from the mid-nineties onward. Over 2/3 of the material had never been heard when originally released in 2006 and had 30 newly recorded songs. Orphans also featured a number of songs finding a home on a Waits' album for the first time. They included Waits' unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht and Leadbelly. These outtakes, rarities and the previously unreleased material were separately grouped into themes and named, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. And now these titles will be released individually. Brawlers is a collection of raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomps Bawlers is a collection of Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Waits' songs Bastards is a collection of experimental music and strange tales. Album Tracks 1. What Keeps Mankind Alive (Remastered) 2. Children's Story (Remastered) 3. Heigh Ho (Remastered) 4. Army Ants (Remastered) 5. Book of Moses (Remastered) 1. Bone Chain (Remastered) 2. Two Sisters (Remastered) 3. First Kiss (Remastered) 4. Dog Door (Remastered) 5. Redrum (Remastered) 1. Nirvana (Remastered) 2. Home I'll Never Be (Remastered) 3. Poor Little Lamb (Remastered) 4. Altar Boy (Remastered) 5. The Pontiac (Remastered) 6. Spidey's Wild Ride (Remastered) 1. King Kong (Remastered) 2. On the Road (Remastered) 3. Dog Treat (Remastered) 4. Missing My Son (Remastered)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered for the first time ever from the original ½Inch flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. 2023 marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from '70's-era Inchbluesy, boozyInch wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist-while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity. It's a Waits-arranged pastiche, a variety of atmospheres from different sound planets. There is the warped, marching-army-ants music of InchUnderground,Inch an impressionist chant about people living below cities, but there was also the poignancy of the spare piano ballad, InchSoldier's Things,Inch the good bar yarn, InchFrank's Wild YearsInch, the tender, minimalist paean to Waits' wife and muse, Kathleen, InchJohnsburg, Illinois,Inch and the raggedy anthem to neighborhood chaos, InchIn the Neighborhood.Inch Album Tracks 1. Underground 2. Shore Leave 3. Dave the Butcher 4. Johnsburg Illinois 5. 16 Shells from a 30 6 6. Town with No Cheer 7. In the Neighbourhood 1. Just Another Sucker on the Vine 2. Frank's Wild Years 3. Swordfishtrombone 4. Down Down Down 5. Soldier's Things 6. Gin Soaked Boy 7. Trouble's Braids 8. Rainbirds