Sold Date: March 29, 2015
Start Date: March 19, 2015
Final Price: £180.00 (GBP)
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Tom Waits "Orphans (Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)" Box Set - Anti/Epitaph Records (2006) (USA) 

Brand New. Sealed

Original, limited edition multi-Record Box Set on high quality (180-gram) vinyl. This brand new, incredible life spanning collection of Tom Waits' music is remastered on 7 records and includes a fantastic booklet with lyrics, photos and tall tales.

   As a vocalist, Tom Waits, like Bob Dylan, embodies the entire genealogical line of the blues, jazz, local barroom bards, and traveling minstrels in the very grain of his songs. That wily throat carries not only the songs he and his songwriting partner and wife, Kathleen Brennan, pen, but also the magnet for the sonic atmospheres that frame it.

  There is adventure, danger, and the sound of the previous, the forgotten, and the wished for in it. And it is that voice that links all seven of these records together and makes them partners. One cannot dismiss that even though some of these songs have appeared elsewhere, Orphans is a major work that goes beyond the origins of the material and drags everything past and present with sound and texture into a present to be presented as something utterly new, beyond anything he has previously issued.

  To paraphrase Ezra Pound in response to Allen Ginsberg's inquiry about what his poem "The Cantos" meant, these orphans speak for themselves.

[Brawlers]
Record One
(Side One)
1 Lie To Me
2 Low Down
3 2:19
4 Fish In The Jailhouse

Record One
(Side Two)
1 Bottom Of The World
2 Lucinda
3 Ain't Goin' Down To The Well
4 Lord I've Been Changed

Record Two
(Side Three)
1 Puttin' On The Dog
2 Road To Peace
3 All The Time

Record Two
(Side Four)
1 The Return Of Jackie And Judy
2 Walk Away
3 Sea Of Love
4 Buzz Fledderjohn
5 Rains On Me

[Bawlers]
Record Three
(Side Five)
1 Bend Down The Branches
2 You Can Never Hold Back Spring
3 Long Way Home
4 Widow's Grace
5 Little Drop Of Poison
6 Shiny Things

Record Three
(Side Six)
1 World Keeps Turning
2 Tell It To Me
3 Never Let Go
4 Fannin Street

Record Four
(Side Seven)
1 Little Man
2 It's Over
3 If I Have To Go
4 Goodnight Irene
5 The Fall Of Troy

Record Four
(Side Eight)
1 Take Care Of All My Children
2 Down There By The Train
3 Danny Says
4 Jayne's Blue Wish
5 Young At Heart

[Bastards]
Record Five
(Side Nine)
1 What Keeps Mankind Alive
2 Children's Story
3 Heigh Ho
4 Army Ants
5 Books Of Moses

Record Five
(Side Ten)
1 Bone Chain
2 Two Sisters
3 First Kiss
4 Dog Door
5 Redrum

Record Six
(Side Eleven)
1 Nirvana
2 Home I'll Never Be
3 Poor Little Lamb
4 Altar Boy
5 The Pontiac
6 Spidey's Wild Ride

Record Six
(Side Twelve)
1 King Kong
2 On The Road
3 Dog Treat
4 Missing My Son


Record Seven (Bonus Disc)
(Side Thirteen)
1 Crazy 'Bout My Baby
2 Diamond In Your Mind
3 Cannon Song

Record Seven
(Side Fourteen)
1 Pray
2 No One Can Forgive Me
3 Mathie Grove

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