Orphans is "CD of the Week" for the Seattle Post-Intelligence
This Week's Hot CD: Tom Waits' 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards' Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Anti)
Oh to be Tom Waits! For more than 30 years, the iconic American singer-songwriter has released more than 20 albums that have dabbled in an array of genres (folk, blues, jazz, cabaret, polka, waltzes) blended seamlessly into one idiosyncratic style.
Wait's singular voice is the constant, an instrument he describes in the liner notes as his attempt to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine and seduce.
He also admits that he and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and longtime collaborator, intended this three-disc, 56-song collection to be like emptying pockets on the table after an evening of gambling, burglary and cow tipping. The loot is divided into three parts: a collection of rowdy Brawlers; ballads, love-songs and lullabies aptly titled Bawlers; a group of Waitsiana stories, monologues and experiments called Bastards. (Shawn Telford)
GRADE: B+
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