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Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years (Remastered) (1987/2023)

Posted By: delpotro
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years (Remastered) (1987/2023)

Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years (Remastered) (1987/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:56:39
Cabaret, Experimental Rock, Blues, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Universal Music, Island Records

Franks’ Wild Years emerged in 1987. Between the subtitle Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts, the album title’s callback to the Swordfishtrombones character, and the presence of “Frank’s Theme,” the record could be viewed as an account of Frank’s misadventures. But Waits is a born three-card monte man, so that could all be obfuscation.

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered) (2017)

Posted By: ciklon5
Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered) (2017)

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered) (2017)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:09:45 | 436 Mb / 1 Gb
Genre: Blues Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter / Label: Anti - Epitaph

At this stage of the game, any new Tom Waits record is an event. Listening through the music of his entire career is daunting, to say the least, but it's a journey no one else, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan, has taken before. If one listens to the official recordings, from 1973's Closing Time, featuring the songs of an itinerant Beat barroom singer (no lounges please), right on through to the frenetic mania of 2004's Real Gone, one becomes aware of not only the twists and turns of a songwriter wrestling and bellowing at and with his muse, but of a journeyman artist barely able to hold on to the lid of his creativity, let alone keep it on.

Tom Waits - Live at the Bottom Line in New York December 18, 1976 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Tom Waits - Live at the Bottom Line in New York December 18, 1976 (2023)

Tom Waits - Live at the Bottom Line in New York December 18, 1976 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:31:34 | 390 / 204 Mb
Genre: Rock Blues

In the work of American songwriter Tom Waits, swampy blues, Beat poetry, West Coast jazz, Tin Pan Alley, country, 1930s-era cabaret, and post-Civil War parlor songs meet neon-lit carnival music and the wheezing, clattering, experimental rhythms (often played by makeshift musical instruments from car radios to metal pipes and tin cans, hence his love of Edgard Varese and Harry Partch) form a keenly individual musical universe. It has often been imitated but never replicated.

Tom Waits - Akron (2022)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - Akron (2022)

Tom Waits - Akron (2022)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 MB
1:03:12 | Rock | Label: Wickerman

BROADCAST FROM TOM WAITS MINI ORPHANS TOUR IN 2006 In the summer of 2006, Tom Waits embarked on a short jaunt of the southern and Midwest United States. Entitled, The Orphans Tour, Tom’s son Casey played with him in the band accompanying him. Consisting of eight shows in total, the group played in; Atlanta, GA, Asheville, NC, Memphis, TN, Nashville, TN, Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI and Akron, OH. The final date of the tour, in Akron, Ohio on 13th August 2006, was perhaps the most dynamic and best loved show, and was recorded for a simultaneous FM radio broadcast. This new release contains this broadcast in full for the first time on CD. In November ‘06, Waits issued Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, a 54-song three-disc box set of rarities, unreleased tracks, and new compositions. Waits described its contents as "songs that fell behind the stove while making dinner". Orphans made the top ten in several European charts.

Tom Waits - Sleepin At Drew's House (1976)

Posted By: popsakov
Tom Waits - Sleepin At Drew's House (1976)

Tom Waits - Sleepin At Drew's House (1976)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 315 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 141 Mb
Covers Included | 00:56:01 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz, Blues, Rock | Tendolar #TDR-129 | Unofficial Release

All Cuts Recorded Live in Cleveland 1976.

Tom Waits - The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (1993/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (1993/2023)

Tom Waits - The Black Rider (2023 Remaster) (1993/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 311 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 MB
55:21 | Blues Rock, Alternative Rock, Music Hall, Noise, Klezmer, Musical | Label: Island Records

Tom Waits collaborated with director Robert Wilson and librettist William Burroughs on the musical stage work The Black Rider in 1990. A variation on the Faust legend, the 19th century German story allowed Waits to indulge his affection for the music of Kurt Weill and address one of his favorite topics of recent years, the devil. Waits had proven an excellent collaborator when he worked with director Francis Ford Coppola on One from the Heart, making that score an integral part of the film. Here, the collaboration and the established story line served to focus Waits' often fragmented attention, lending coherence and consistency.

Tom Waits - Bone Machine (2023 Remaster) (1992/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - Bone Machine (2023 Remaster) (1992/2023)

Tom Waits - Bone Machine (2023 Remaster) (1992/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 266 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 MB
53:28 | Experimental, Ballad, Post Rock | Label: Island Records

Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album, Bone Machine is a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative – and often harrowing – effect. In keeping with the title's grotesque image of the human body, Bone Machine is obsessed with decay and mortality, the ease with which earthly existence can be destroyed. The arrangements are accordingly stripped of all excess flesh; the very few, often non-traditional instruments float in distinct separation over the clanking junkyard percussion that dominates the record.

Tom Waits - Frank’s Wild Years (2023 Remaster) (1987/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - Frank’s Wild Years (2023 Remaster) (1987/2023)

Tom Waits - Frank’s Wild Years (2023 Remaster) (1987/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 276 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 MB
56:32 | Blues Rock, Lounge, Contemporary Jazz, Avantgarde | Label: Island Records

Tom Waits wrote a song called "Frank's Wild Years" for his 1983 Swordfishtrombones album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and toured with in 1986. The Franks Wild Years album, drawn from the show, is subtitled, "un operachi romantico in two acts," though the songs themselves do not carry the plot. Rather, this is just the third installment in Waits' eccentric series of Island Records albums in which he seems most inspired by German art song and carnival music, presenting songs in spare, stripped-down arrangements consisting of instruments like marimba, baritone horn, and pump organ and singing in a strained voice that has been artificially compressed and distorted. The songs themselves often are conventional romantic vignettes, or would be minus the oddities of instrumentation, arrangement, and performance.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster) (1985/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster) (1985/2023)

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (2023 Remaster) (1985/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 269 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 MB
53:45 | Alternative Rock, Experimental | Label: Island Records

With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation – marimba, accordion, various percussion – as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs is very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounds for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. The chief musical difference is the introduction of guitarist Marc Ribot, who adds his noisy leads to the general cacophony. But Rain Dogs is sprawling where its predecessor had been focused: Tom Waits' lyrics here sometimes are imaginative to the point of obscurity, seemingly chosen to fit the rhythms rather than for sense.

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (2023 Remaster) (1983/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (2023 Remaster) (1983/2023)

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (2023 Remaster) (1983/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 179 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 MB
41:36 | Blues Rock, Lounge, Jazz-Rock | Label: Island Records

Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad – a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now have his attention.

VA - God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson (2016)

Posted By: Designol
VA - God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson (2016)

VA - God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 254 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 96 Mb | Scans ~ 163 Mb
Blues, Gospel, Slide Guitar Blues | Label: Alligator | # ALCD 4968 | Time: 00:41:55

A stunning collection of artists and performances celebrate the timeless music of legendary gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. From Derek Trucks’ and Susan Tedeschi’s reverent reading of Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning to Lucinda Williams’ slide guitar-fueled lament in Nobody’s Fault But Mine, from Luther Dickinson’s spirited take on Bye And Bye I’m Going To See The King (with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band) to Tom Waits’ virtual embodiment of Johnson himself on The Soul Of A Man and John The Revelator, this record is packed with incomparable recordings that speak as much to the greatness of the performers as they do the enduring legacy of Blind Willie Johnson. Featuring Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Cowboy Junkies, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Sinéad O'Connor, Luther Dickinson, Maria McKee and Rickie Lee Jones.

V.A. - Big Bad Love [Soundtrack] (2002)

Posted By: gribovar
V.A. - Big Bad Love [Soundtrack] (2002)

V.A. - Big Bad Love [Soundtrack] (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 260 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 110 MB | Covers - 193 MB
Genre: Blues, Soundtrack | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Nonesuch Records (7559-79637-2)

The soundtrack to the movie Big Bad Love, made from Larry Brown's collection of stories is, as it should be, a very Southern affair - more accurately, a thing of the Mississippi hill country, also acting as a very effective ad for the Fat Possum label, since seven of the tracks here come from their artists.
What will attract a lot of people to this disc is the appearance of two new Tom Waits tracks. "Long Way Home" takes him on the kind of blues route that's become so familiar in his work - a kind of enigmatic blues that remains a love song and a promise for the future, putting it in the same realm as "Jayne's Blue Wish," a Waits-ian lullaby with gentle, if sometimes disturbed, dreams for tomorrow, his guitar work cast into relief by a quiet trumpet solo…

Rebekka Bakken - Little Drop Of Poison (2014)

Posted By: Designol
Rebekka Bakken - Little Drop Of Poison (2014)

Rebekka Bakken - Little Drop Of Poison (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans ~ 105 Mb
Vocal Jazz, Folk-Jazz | Label: Universal Music | # 06025 3776824 | Time: 01:00:56

Nordic folk-jazz chanteuse Rebekka Bakken was the most successful exponent of a new generation of Scandinavian jazz singers that also included Silje Nergaard, Sidsel Endresen, and Solveig Slettahjell. On this album Rebekka interprets the songs of Tom Waits.

Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band - Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits (2008)

Posted By: gribovar
Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band - Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits (2008)

Southside Johnny with LaBamba's Big Band - Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 412 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 144 MB | Covers - 53 MB
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Big Band | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Harp Inc. (GELM 4200)

Southside Johnny Lyon has been fronting one of America's most consistently hard-rocking R&B show bands, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, for well over 30 years, so this album should come as something of a surprise to longtime fans - here Southside sings a dozen tunes from the songbook of Tom Waits alongside a jazzy, full-bodied big band led by Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg, a longtime fixture in the Asbury Jukes horn section (and a member of Max Weinberg's band on Late Night with Conan O'Brien). While this is very much a change of pace, it's one that both Lyon and Rosenberg handle with confidence and aplomb; Lyon's voice shows a touch more grain than it did in his salad days with the Jukes, but his sense of phrasing and showman's touch is superb, and he brings swagger, heart, and sincerity to every performance here, and when Waits shows up for a duet on "Walk Away," the two trade lines as if they've been singing together for years…

Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - One From The Heart [OST] (1982) [Non-remastered]

Posted By: gribovar
Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - One From The Heart [OST] (1982) [Non-remastered]

Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - One From The Heart [OST] (1982) [Non-remastered]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 204 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 99 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Jazz, Soundtrack | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: CBS/Columbia (CK 37703)

One From the Heart is the score to the most misunderstood of Francis Ford Coppola's films. Far ahead of its time in terms of technology, use of color, montage, and set design, its soundtrack is the only thing that grounds it to earth. Coppola's movie is a metaphorical retelling of the exploits of Zeus and Hera set in Las Vegas. Coppola claims to have been taken with the male-female narrative implications of the track "I Don't Talk to Strangers," off Tom Waits' Foreign Affairs album. That cut was a duet with Bette Midler. Midler wasn't available for One From the Heart, however, so Waits chose Crystal Gayle as his vocal foil. The result is one of the most beautifully wrought soundtrack collaborations in history…