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Tom Waits
Brawlers 2lp
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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.
- First Released: 2018
- Label: Epitaph
16 tracks, 4 sides
Side 1
- Lie To Me (Remastered)
- LowDown (Remastered)
- 2:19 (Remastered)
- Fish In The Jailhouse (Remastered)
Side 2
- Bottom Of The World (Remastered)
- Lucinda (Remastered)
- Ain't Goin' Down To The Well (Remastered)
- Lord I've Been Changed (Remastered)
Side 3
- Puttin' On The Dog (Remastered)
- Road To Peace (Remastered)
- All The Time (Remastered)
Side 4
- The Return Of Jackie And Judy (Remastered)
- Walk Away (Remastered)
- Sea Of Love (Remastered)
- Buzz Fledderjohn (Remastered)
- Rains On Me (Remastered)