Tom Waits albums (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: Tom Waits compilation albums, Tom Waits live albums, Tom Waits soundtracks, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits discography, Rain Dogs, Small Change, Bone Machine, The Black Rider, Nighthawks at the Diner, Alice, Glitter and Doom Live, The Heart of Saturday Night, Mule Variations, Big Time, Closing Time, Blood Money, Used Songs 1973-1980, Franks Wild Years, One from the Heart, Swordfishtrombones, Real Gone, Foreign Affairs, Heartattack and Vine, Beautiful Maladies, Night on Earth, Blue Valentine, The Early Years, Asylum Years, Bounced Checks, Romeo Bleeding: Live From Austin, Anthology of Tom Waits. Excerpt: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is a limited edition three CD set by Tom Waits, released by the ANTI- label on November 17, 2006 in Europe and on November 21, 2006 in the United States. The set is a collection of 24 rare and 30 brand new songs. Each disc is intended to be a separate collection in itself; the first disc with the more roughcut rock and blues cuts, the second the more melancholy tunes and ballads, and the third disc having the more experimental songs and spoken word pieces. The liner notes claim there are "56 songs, of which 30 are new". Waits has described the collection as The Orphans Tour was conducted in support of the album prior to its release. On the decision to organize the songs into three themed albums, under the titles Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, Waits said in interview: Brawlers, the most rock and blues-oriented of the three collections, contains songs covering themes ranging from failed relationships ("Lie to Me", "Walk Away"), floods and subsequent havoc ("2:19"), and a song about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ("Road to Peace"); and incorporates musical styles such as bluesy gospel ("Ain't Goin' Down to the Well", "Lord I've Been Changed") and sentimental tunes ("Lucinda", "Sea of Love"). Bawlers is composed of mostly downbeat numbers, replacing the hope of ballads on previous albums with resignation (notably "Bend Down the Branches", "Little Drop of Poison", "Fannin Street", "Little Man", and "Widow's Grove"). The track "Down There by the Train" was written by Waits for Johnny Cash, and was first released on Cash's first American Recordings album. Waits claims to have originally intended to call this part of the compilation Shut Up and Eat Your Ballads. Bastards is concerned with Waits' more experimental musical styles, opening with an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's poem "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (music by Kurt Weill) and continuing on "Children's Story", which is an excerpt of Robert Wilson's production of Georg Büchner's