#bawlers

[tothedogsorwhoever]

"And even though you've lost your way, the world is dreaming, dreaming of spring. So close your eyes, open your heart to the one who's dreaming of you. And you can never hold back spring. Remember everything spring can bring. You can never hold back spring."

- Tom Waits,

"You Can Never Hold Back Spring"

[shawnkidbaby]

Tom Waits Tuesday.

[reckonslepoisson]

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

The overwhelming, overspilling length of Orphans might make it Tom Waits’ most difficult and inaccessible release. However, buried within a three hour run time – and three discs, of which all are individually still longer than his usual studio efforts – are plenty of Waits’ greatest tunes.

Brawlers is the rock disc: a Waitsian fuse of unorthodox country and blues, but even as supposedly straightforward ‘rock’, too much messes with texture, fuzz and composition to be reduced to its mere outward rockiness. Bawlers is then the lowest-key disc, of high quality but more sullen and stripped back. The emphasis here is folk or folk blues, a style in which Waits has excelled for decades. He does so again.

The final disc, Bastards, is my fave. Every other song or so Waits tells a story of varying degrees of weirdness/creepiness, but the music itself is great too. The most varied of the three, it’s the only one that surprises me afresh on each new listen.

[josephdudleyclark]

The final selection for the evening... #currentlyspinning #vinyl #tomwaits #bawlers https://www.instagram.com/p/BnIDdbSBo3n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qxo7v7dcfbfj

[skl90713]

More RSD 2018 postings I picked up at @leftysrecords. All purchased at Lefty's Records, Lincoln, NE on April 21,2018. I was 3rd in line. 💥Be sure to swipe through all pics💥 Tom Waits - Bawlers US release 2xLP for RSD 2108. Limited to 4500 copies Blue Translucent 180gm vinyl. #vinyl #vinylcollector #record #recordcollector #vinyladdict #vinylporn #vinyloftheday #vinylclub #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinyljunkie #records #lp #music #cratedigging #cratedigger #flipbin2000 #rsd #recordstoreday #leftysrecords #lnk #recordstoreday2018 #rsd2018 #bawlers #tomwaits #coloredvinyl (at Lincoln, Nebraska)

[q-a-m-tunes]

Today is bestial acts

what keeps mankind alive

artist tom waits

composer kurt weill

lyrics bertolt brecht

album brawlers, bawlers, and bastards

[musicofmemories]

Tom Waits – Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards

           This three CD compilation is the most that I’ve ever spent on recorded music. Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards came out in 2006. I wasn’t going to spend nearly 40 dollars on a box set for myself, but I knew that if I got it for my dad as a birthday present I would be able to listen to it and burn my own copies of the CDs. So I did. For a few years I would list Tom Waits as my favorite artist, although he was very different from most of the other music that I listened to. I still listen to him a lot today.

           Freshman year of high school one of the assignments in my American Authors class involved curating a mix CD and writing about who you would want to hear each song. I had to choose ten songs, and choose people or groups to hear each one. The people could be in my own life, fictional, or historical. I decided to put two of the songs from this album onto the CD. I don’t remember what the first one was, but the second was “Road to Peace.” This song deals with the Isreali-Palestinian conflict. Waits tells a pair of stories humanizing those on both sides of the conflict. I credit this song with inspiring me to research the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Over the years I’ve learned a lot through listening to music, but I’ve also learned a lot doing research because of what I heard in music. “Road to Peace” was not the first time I did this, but represents it well.

[inviolableduck]

My Daddy told me, lookin' back, The best friend you'll have is a rail road track.

Tom Waits - Bottom of the World