Tom Waits - Brawlers

Release Date:06/15/2018;Notes: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.;Track List:1. Lie to Me (Remastered);2. Lowdown (Remastered);3. 2:19 (Remastered);4. Fish in the Jailhouse (Remastered);5. Bottom of the World (Remastered);6. Lucinda (Remastered);7. Ain't Goin' Down to the Well (Remastered);8. Lord I've Been Changed (Remastered);9. Puttin' on the Dog (Remastered);10. Road to Peace (Remastered);11. All the Time (Remastered);12. The Return of Jackie and Judy (Remastered);13. Walk Away (Remastered);14. Sea of Love (Remastered);15. Buzz Fledderjohn (Remastered);16. Rains on Me (Remastered);Special Attributes:REMASTERED