Orphans, Brawlers & Bastards

General | Jan 2007

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2007-02-12
Visionary songwriter and actor Tom Waits produces a Limited edition 3 CD set with 24 rare and 30 new songs with his full throated gravelly raspy squawking voice and cool instrumentation NO FCCs detected
BRAWLERS bluesy Gospel failed relationships juke joint stomp
1: Fast pounding beat, growly vocal, nice e-guitar.
2: mid tempo pounding beat-wailing/growl "my baby's lowdown"
***3: Bluesy Waits big rhythm, mini scourching e-fuzz guitar."my baby is leaving on the 219" ( train song)
4: mid tempo, big rhythm louder wail/growl, e-guitar & pounding beat.
5: slow Celtic waltz sound think the Pogues.
6: slow industrial foundry rhythm, squawking/wailing Waits + harmonica
7: mid tempo, softer whispering vocal bass+ harmonica
8: max gravelly Gospel Waits
9: softer hushed Waits, mellow instrumentation
***10: 3:slow to mid full throated gravel Waits on the horrors of war " along the road to peace"
11: mellow industrial foundry rhythm, softer gravel/squawk build to big instrumental rock/blues guitar
12: big instrument sound real gravel vocal almost screeching
13: almost Gospel sounding big vocal minimal instrumentation
14: max gravel vocal " the sea of love"
15: faint dog bark, low down blues.
16: max gravel vocal/wail " it rains on me"

BAWLERS downtrodden numbers, Celtic, country ballads waltz & classical
1: a lullaby
2: slow gravelly
3: mellow softer
4: slow Waltz Waits
5: a tango, hushed gravel Waits
6: slow vocal with banjo picking and clarinet.
7: slow piano & vocal.
8: soft slow dance slow bass plucking mellow Nashville country twangy guitar
9: loude mildly distorted vocal + squeeze box
**10: sad folkie ballad with gentle guitar picking.
11: sad with late night/last call piano & sax
12: sad with piano & sax + brushes on the snare.
13: crying in his beer vocal with piano.
14: too many beers " Good Night Irene" with chorus.
15: down in the dumps Irish Waits
16: Salvation Army sidewalk band Waits.
**17: slow piano raspy Waits "down there where the train goes slow"
18: full throated gravel/rasp Waits, acoustic guitar (slow)
19: real slow guitar&vocal + trumpet.
**20: cool "young at Heart" + whistling and twangy e-guitar

BASTARDS experimental styles
1: almost a Cabaret performance, big kick drum
2: storyteller intro., heavy breathing Waits
**3: industrial foundry soundscape, scratchy voice Waits + harmonica
***4: reminds me of William Burroughs, entomology lecture with plucking strings.
5: classic Waits, big beat plucked strings "Books of Moses"
*6: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice
7: almost a sea shanty
***8: storyteller Waits
***9: faster backup sound, distorted Waits ( sounds like through a megaphone)
10: feedback & distortion back up beeps & boops
11: storyteller Waits
12: slow song, sad with piano
13: old timey tune sound, howl at the moon Waits.
***14: tolling bells intro.,slow "I'am an old altar boy"
***15: history of Waits' cars, by the side of the road car talk.
16: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy Waits.
17: industrial foundry soundscape with his voice, full raspy storyteller Waits. . . "King Kong"
18: Big full sound-very nice- full raspy gravel distorted Waits:,, D Farrell 02/2007

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2007-02-11 — 2007-04-15
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Track listing

1. Lie To Me
2. Lowdown
3. 2:19
4. Fish In The Jailhouse
5. Bottom Of The World
6. Lucinda
7. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
8. Lord I've Been Changed
9. 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
17. Bend Down The Branches
18. You Can Never Hold Back Spring
19. Long Way Home
20. Widow's Grove
21. Little Drop Of Poison
22. Shiny Things
23. World Keeps Turning
24. Tell It To Me
25. Never Let Go
26. Fannin Street
27. Little Man
28. Its Over
29. If I Hove To Go
30. Goodnight Irene
31. The Fall Of Troy
32. Take Care Of All My Children
33. Down There By The Train
34. Danny Says
35. Jayne's Blue Wish
36. Young At Heart
37. What Keeps Mankind Alive
38. Children's Story
39. Heigh Ho
40. Army Ants
41. Books Of Moses
42. Bone Chain
43. Two Sisters
44. Frist Kiss
45. dog door
46. Redrum
47. Nirvana
48. Home I'll Never Be
49. Poor Little Lamb
50. Altar Boy
51. The Pontiac
52. Spidey's Wild Ride
53. King Kong
54. on the road