With 12 Page Book. His first studio album in seven years finds Tom Waits in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers. Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits songwriting, from beautiful ballads to the avant cinematic sound scape. There is a pervasive sense…
Remastered and Available as a Standalone 180g Double Vinyl Release for the First Time! For the first time, Tom Waits is issuing standalone editions of his 2006 classic 56 song release Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards. Each of the three albums, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards, will be remastered and pressed on 180g double vinyl. A spectacular musical journey, which visits most every genre of…
After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts…
Originally released in 1992 on Island Records, Bone Machine is Tom Waits’ 11th studio album. 5 years after Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine is a return to studio albums for Tom Waits. The album features David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain and Keith Richards and won a GRAMMY for Best Alternative Music Album. Bone Machine is…
Remastered and Available as a Standalone 180g Double Vinyl Release for the First Time! For the first time, Tom Waits is issuing standalone editions of his 2006 classic 56 song release Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards. Each of the three albums, Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards, will be remastered and pressed on 180g double vinyl. A spectacular musical journey, which visits most every genre of…
After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts…
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, originally released in 1974. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The album cover is based on In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra. It is an illustration featuring…
Mule Variations is the twelfth studio album by American musician Tom Waits, released on April 16, 1999 on the ANTI- label. It was Waits s first studio album since The Black Rider (1993). It won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album and was nominated for Best Male Rock Performance for the track Hold…
Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered) Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks at the Diner debuts some of Waits greatest classics like Warm Beer, Cold Women and Eggs and Sausage with a crack Jazz ensemble backing him up and some…
Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute,…
Newly Remixed by Karl Derfler and Remastered with Tom Waits Kathleen Brennan With 2004 s Real Gone, Tom Waits off-road adventures are taken into the further beyond. Mixing and mashing: worlds both sonic and ethnic, musical traditions both new and old, and rhythms both mouth-made and sampled from his own instruments, Waits reached a new pinnacle here….
After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits Asylum years still hold a special place in…
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 “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his…
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones On 180g Vinyl LP Special Edition Vinyl Reissue from the Island Records Vault! Though Tom Waits had spent most of the 70s establishing himself as one of America s most distinctive singer-songwriters, Swordfishtrombones found him reinventing himself and creating one of the most original sounds in popular music. Leaving behind his Kerouac-influenced lyrics and lounge-lizard piano-bar stylings for…
2023 Marks 30 years since Tom Waits released The Black Rider. Originally released in 1993 on Island Records, The Black Rider is Tom Waits’ 12th studio album. The Black Rider is a musical comedy horror collaboration between artists: Robert Wilson (director designer) writer Beat guru, William S. Burroughs (text) and Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan…