New Tom Waits-album!
 

I´m waiting this impatientely (the little I´ve heard of it sounds very interesting!):

Bad As Me is Tom Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of “Chicago,” to the closing barroom chorale of “New Year’s Eve,” Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits’ songwriting, from beautiful ballads like “Last Leaf,” to the avant cinematic soundscape of “Hell Broke Luce,” a battlefront dispatch. On tracks like “Talking at the Same Time,” Waits shows off a supple falsetto, while on blues burners like “Raised Right Men” and the gospel tinged “Satisfied” he spits, stutters and howls. Like a good boxer, these songs are lean and mean, with strong hooks and tight running times. A pervasive sense of players delighting in each other’s musical company brings a feeling of loose joy even to the album’s saddest songs.

Bad As Me available October 25th.

Pre-order Bad As Me at the Tom Waits Store.
Get the "Bad As Me" MP3 at your favorite digital retailer.

Bad As Me Tracklisting

01. Chicago
02. Raised Right Men
03. Talking At The Same Time
04. Get Lost
05. Face To The Highway
06. Pay Me
07. Back In The Crowd
08. Bad As Me
09. Kiss Me
10. Satisfied
11. Last Leaf
12. Hell Broke Luce
13. New Year's Eve

There´s also very great strip about the album here:
http://www.tomwaits.com/news/article...stening_Party/

that new single kicks ass in the way that only waits can. It's my new mission in life to see him live when he tours this album

That would really be a dream come true to me (he´s one of the "big fours" to me, others are Cave, Beefheart and Dr.John and I have seen Cave and Dr.John live), but it is very possible that he will never come to Finland or even in scandinavia again (he was in Stockholm in Big Time-tour). I wish I will see at least Sonic Youth sometime live...and if I someday also see P.J Harvey and John Parish live, then I have seen all the artists that are worth to see!