Tom Waits is releasing a live set of performances culled from his Glitter and Doom Tour. You can pre-order the album on CD or vinyl LP, or get one of the pre-order packages that include, among other things, one of Waits’ “stain” T-shirts.
NPR is streaming one of the shows from this tour here, if you want a preview.
Hat Tip: Remy
Jacob Steinhardt
During the lulls the wounded called and groaned in No Man’s Land, lingered for as much as a week, and usually died there, and sometimes screamed in their incoherent agony; while above them sounded the joyous songs of birds. The thrushes, especially, twittered wildly each morning, for they were used to the guns.
– Leon Woolf
Christ in Gethsemane by Michael D. Obrien
woodcut print of “A Dance of Death”
from the Liber Chronicarum, 1493.
The good folks at NPR have graciously offered a pod-cast of Tom Waits’ complete 2 1/2 hour Glitter and Doom tour finale.
Set List:
“Lucinda / Ain’t Going Down to the Well”
“Down in the Hole”
“Falling Down”
“Chocolate Jesus”
“All the World Is Green”
“Cemetery Polka”
“Cause of It All”
“Till the Money Runs Out”
“Such a Scream”
“November”
“Hold On”
“Black Market Baby”
“9th and Hennepin”
“Lie to Me”
“Lucky Day”
“On the Nickel”
“Lost in the Harbor”
“Innocent When You Dream”
“Hoist That Rag”
“Make It Rain”
“Dirt in the Ground”
“Get Behind the Mule”
“Hang Down Your Head”
“Jesus Gonna Be Here”
“Singapore”ENCORE
“Eyeball Kid”
“Anywhere I Lay My Head”
Grab a fifth and your favorite fedora, sit back, and stream the concert here.
“23 Jan 2008
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008.”
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To hold you dear this second night
Is like a pillar caste in salt
That looks with whited eye upon the past
And sees, in flames, a thousand faults:
A host of fears and trembling joys
In passion wrought, in guilt beguiled,
Yet tempered here upon this pyre.
Purer now within my sight,
I hold you dear this second night.
Copyright 2002 j. bennett carnahan, jr.
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