Tom Waits-ORPHANS: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards-3CD 2006-Anti, Inc. / Epitaph Europe-8714092684421-700 grn
54-track 3-CD album set comprising disk titled Brawlers which is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke-joint stomps Bawlers contains Celtic & country ballads waltzes lullabies piano and classic lyrical Waits songs while Bastards is filled with experimental music stories & jokes. The set also features thirty previously unreleased recordings including interpretations of songs originallywritten by Waits but recorded by other artists. Some are calling it a Tom Waits career retrospective, but Orphans, new triple CD opus from rocknrolls most enduring and enigmatic adventurer, is so much more. For a start it contains over 30 new songs – everything from versions of tracks previously given out to other artists, to music recorded in the garage with his kids and covers of everyone from The Ramones to Leadbelly. For another, its split up into three separate CDs - Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards – and as such not only spans a huge selection of music but also presents it in a much more coherent way than usual. Where Brawlers focuses on Waits grittier, upbeat side with a procession of roadhouse rock and diner blues, Bawlers profiles his way with a waltz and his love of ballads, highlighting his capacity for truly poignant songwriting. Bastards, meanwhile, is perhaps the most interesting set: stream of experimental output that features covers, Bukowski poems, horror stories and gags. Ambitious and sprawling yet well selected and carefully executed, Orphans is so much more than the sum of its parts and a beautifully frank portrait of a true musical legend.
Veyts described all this as follows:
"Many songs fell for the oven at preparation of a lunch, them about 60 gathered. Some of movies, some of collections. Some things did not enter entries which I made in a garage with children. Strange things, deserted melodies."
Comes In A Double Foldout Digipak With 24 Page Book.
Made In The Netherlands.
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