Brawlers (2LP)

 
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Tom Waits
Brawlers (2LP)

[ Epitaph / ADA / 2 LP ]

Release Date: Friday 15 June 2018

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Brawlers presents probably the best-known of Tom Waits' personalities, filled as it is with vocal cord damage, found percussion, old-timey arrangements, and cartoon-buzz lead guitar. It's also the disc that flirts most dangerously with cliché, filled as it is with his well-trod inventory of Americana underbelly images: trains, jailhouses, barrooms, etc. However, the secret of Waits' act is how well he deploys these should-be-tired cultural touchstones; at the very least, he sounds more comfortable in the role of a boxcar-hopper than he does reciting the ripped-from-the-headlines Middle East folk song "Road to Peace". Certainly it helps that he continues to buck the aging rocker career trend of increasing cleanliness, wrapping these songs in dirt-grit production that keeps the Big Bopper warble of "Lie to Me" or the garage 12-bar Ramones cover "The Return of Jackie and Judy" from sounding like a House of Blues exhibit.

Tracks:

LP 1:
1. Lie To Me (Remastered)
2. LowDown (Remastered)
3. 2:19 (Remastered)
4. Fish In The Jailhouse (Remastered)

LP 2:
1. Bottom Of The World (Remastered)
2. Lucinda (Remastered)
3. Ain't Goin' Down To The Well (Remastered)
4. Lord I've Been Changed (Remastered)

LP 3:
1. Puttin' On The Dog (Remastered)
2. Road To Peace (Remastered)
3. All The Time (Remastered)

LP 4:
1. The Return Of Jackie And Judy (Remastered)
2. Walk Away (Remastered)
3. Sea Of Love (Remastered)
4. Buzz Fledderjohn (Remastered)
5. Rains On Me (Remastered)