Artist	Song
Tom Waits [BRAWLERS 6/16]	Lucinda (4:52)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 8/20]	First Kiss (2:40)
Tom Waits [REAL GONE 5/16]	Don't Go Into That Barn (5:22)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 4/20]	Widow's Grove (4:58)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 4/20]	Army Ants (3:26)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 10/20]	Fannin Street (5:01)
Tom Waits [REAL GONE 9/16]	Circus (3:56)
Tom Waits [REAL GONE 3/16]	Sins Of The Father (10:36)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 16/20]	Spidey's Wild Ride (2:03)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 1/20]	Bend Down The Branches (1:06)
Tom Waits [BRAWLERS 5/16]	Bottom Of The World (5:42)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 18/20]	Danny Says (3:05)
Tom Waits [REAL GONE 1/16]	Top Of The Hill (4:54)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 13/20]	Poor Little Lamb (1:43)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 19/20]	Jayne's Blue Wish (2:29)
Tom Waits [BRAWLERS 2/16]	LowDown (4:15)
Tom Waits [BRAWLERS 13/16]	Walk Away (2:43)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 11/20]	Nirvana (2:12)
Tom Waits [BAWLERS 16/20]	Take Care Of All My Children (2:31)
Tom Waits [BASTARDS 18/20]	On The Road (4:14)
Tom Waits [REAL GONE 16/16]	A-Chick-A-Boom (1:17)

Comment:

"Oh, I followedYouTo the riverThat washesOutTo the sea;Through the wind,Through the rainOf a cold,Dark nightThat's whereI'llBe.."- Tom Waits, "Widow's Grove", Bawlers, 2006First of all, apologies are in order to mahdishain: Tom (not Waits), if I hadn't listened to your your Orphans mix, "Adopted", I'd never have made this. I'd been thinking about my own Orphans mix for a long time; it wasn't until I heard yours that I realized what my vision of Orphans really is. Spoken-word pieces, vocal beatboxing, the suitable sprinkling of some Real Gone songs that best fit the mood (Real Gone to me is sort of an Orphans dry run, free of any worries about lyrics): it all started hanging together. And here, now, it is.Maybe it's just that any rabid Tom Waits fan has gotta speak out about his rampaging, calico subject.. But for me, Waits's 2006 3-disc set Orphans (Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards) is his reclamation of the bizarre American landscape that, maybe, he best addressed before way back at the beginning of his career, in the `70s, and that he's just coming full circle back to now, absolutely the cadgier for it. Its central songs - "Lucinda", "Widow's Grove", "Bottom Of The World", "Take Care Of All My Children" - stake an interesting claim: that they're new, genuine American folk songs. Listening to these, I seemed to realize two things: one, how little most new songs in the American folk idiom really do approach their source; and, two, just how thrilling the source really is. (They just need the benefit of modern recording technology, and a vocal genius like TW behind the mic.)And notice that the "Bastards" disc does in fact conscientiously avoid any statement songs like these; but it's also probably the axis of the set, because it's the landscape itself, the seamy background on top of which all the Bawler/Brawler phenomena arise. He's really getting rid of his ego here; he's content to let the songs (about half of which, depending on how you count, are covers) just speak through him. It's the soul of the set.TT: 79:17. (Note: I barely had to change any of the tracks to make this; the only one I edited was "Army Ants", which needed a fadeout/bit of silence at the end to counter what was on the original album a crossfade into the next track. Other than that, it was incredibly simple to put this together.)

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