To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Mule Variations, the album is re-issued on 180g 'slightly silver'-coloured vinyl. You can get it here.
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Friday, August 09, 2024
New version of ‘Get behind the mule’
In this alternate take of the album's iconic track, Waits' gospel moans resonate with raw emotion, accompanied only by a gritty Wurlitzer. This stripped-down rendition amplifies the dark narrative of murder and perseverance (....).
Listen to the new version on your favourite platform.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Tom Waits in new Jarmusch movie
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Tom Waits honours Keith Richards with poem: ‘Burnt Toast To Keith’
Tom Waits has written a poem called ‘Burnt Toast To Keith’ to mark Keith Richards’ 80th birthday. It appears in the January 2024 edition of UK magazine Uncut. Available in shops now, or online at their web store.
Read the complete poem at Uncut.co.uk.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
‘Tom Waits writing songs again’
Not sure how to interpret this, but according to this piece on Tidal, another Tom Waits album ‘could be closer than you think’: ‘he’s reportedly writing songs again’.
How to Play With Tom Waits: Tom Waits’ collaborators — including Marc Ribot, Tchad Blake, Greg Cohen and others — remember the brilliant madness that went into the maestro’s (newly remastered) Island Records catalog.
Tom Waits introduces Nicolas Cage at SFFilm Awards
Nicolas Cage was presented the Shrem Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting at the SSFilm Awards last week. Tom Waits was the surprise celebrity introducing the actor on that occasion.
More about the event in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Thursday, December 07, 2023
Happy birthday Tom Waits
On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.