Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

About this title: 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 ... read more

Tracks:

1. Lie to Me [Brennan/Waits]
2. Low Down [Brennan/Waits]
3. 2:19 [Brennan/Waits]
4. Fish in the Jailhouse [Brennan/Waits]
5. Bottom of the World [Brennan/Waits]
6. Lucinda [Brennan/Waits]
7. Ain't Goin' Down to the Well [Ledbetter/Lomax/Lom]
8. Lord I've Been Changed [Traditional]
9. Puttin' on the Dog [Waits/Brennan]
10. Road to Peace [Brennan/Waits]
11. All the Time [Brennan/Waits]
12. The Return of Jackie and Judy [Ramone/Ramone/Ramon]
13. Walk Away [Brennan/Waits]
14. Sea of Love [Khoury/Baptiste]
15. Buzz Fledderjohn [Brennan/Waits]
16. Rains on Me [Waits/Weiss]
17. Bend Down the Branches [Brennan/Waits]
18. You Can Never Hold Back Spring [Brennan/Waits]
19. Long Way Home [Brennan/Waits]
20. Widow's Grove [Brennan/Waits]
21. Little Drop of Poison [Brennan/Waits]
22. Shiny Things [Brennan/Waits]
23. World Keeps Turning [Brennan/Waits]
24. Tell It to Me [Brennan/Waits]
25. Never Let Go [Brennan/Waits]
26. Fannin Street [Brennan/Waits]
27. Little Man [Edwards]
28. It's Over [Brennan/Waits]
29. If I Have to Go [Brennan/Waits]
30. Goodnight Irene [Ledbetter/Lomax]
31. The Fall of Troy [Brennan/Waits]
32. Take Care of All My Children [Brennan/Waits]
33. Down There by the Train [Brennan/Waits]
34. Danny Says [Ramone/Ramone/Ramon]
35. Jayne's Blue Wish [Brennan/Waits]
36. Young at Heart [Leigh/Richards]
37. What Keeps Mankind Alive [Weill/Brecht]
38. Children's Story [Woyzeck/Public Doma]
39. Heigh Ho [Chruchill/Morey]
40. Army Ants
41. Books of Moses [Spence]
42. Bone Chain [Brennan/Waits]
43. Two Sisters [Traditional]
44. First Kiss [Brennan/Waits]
45. Dog Door [Waits/Brennan/Linko]
46. Redrum [Brennan/Waits]
47. Nirvana [Bukowski]
48. Home I'll Never Be [Kerouac/Waits]
49. Poor Little Lamb [Kennedy/Waits]
50. Altar Boy [Brennan/Waits]
51. The Pontiac [Brennan/Waits]
52. Spidey's Wild Ride [Brennan/Waits]
53. King Kong [Johnston]
54. On the Road [Kerouac/Waits]
55. [Untitled Track]
56. [Untitled Track]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.