Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is a limited edition three CD set by Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

, released by the ANTI-

ANTI-

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 label

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 on November 17, 2006 in Europe and on November 21, 2006 in the United States.

The set is a collection of 24 rare and 30 brand new songs. Each disc is intended to be a separate collection in itself; the first disc with the more roughcut rock and blues cuts, the second the more melancholy tunes and ballads, and the third disc having the more experimental songs and spoken word pieces. The liner notes claim there are "56 songs, of which 30 are new". Waits has described the collection as

The Orphans Tour

The Orphans Tour

The Orphans Tour is an American concert tour by Tom Waits that took place in August 2006. Waits announced in a press release on 5 July 2006 that he would play 8 dates in places he had not played in years...

 was conducted in support of the album prior to its release.

Subdivision into three albums

On the decision to organize the songs into three themed albums, under the titles Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, Waits said in interview:

Brawlers, the most rock and blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

-oriented of the three collections, contains songs covering themes ranging from failed relationships ("Lie to Me", "Walk Away"), floods and subsequent havoc ("2:19"), and a song about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...

 ("Road to Peace"); and incorporates musical styles such as bluesy gospel

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 ("Ain't Goin' Down to the Well", "Lord I've Been Changed") and sentimental tunes ("Lucinda", "Sea of Love").

Bawlers is composed of mostly downbeat numbers, replacing the hope of ballads on previous albums with resignation (notably "Bend Down the Branches", "Little Drop of Poison", "Fannin Street", "Little Man", and "Widow's Grove"). The track "Down There by the Train" was written by Waits for Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

, and was first released on Cash's first American Recordings

American Recordings (album)

American Recordings is a Grammy Award-winning album by the country singer Johnny Cash. It was released in April 1994 , the first album issued by American Recordings after its name change from Def American...

album. Waits claims to have originally intended to call this part of the compilation Shut Up and Eat Your Ballads.

Bastards is concerned with Waits' more experimental musical styles, opening with an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

's poem "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (music by Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...

) and continuing on "Children's Story", which is an excerpt of Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video...

's production of Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

's unfinished 1837 play Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...

, the score of which Waits wrote and later released as his Blood Money album. The disc contains other literary adaptations, including a Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

 poem about enlightenment ("Nirvana") and two songs, "Home I'll Never Be" and "On the Road", originally penned by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

.

Reception

The album was released to very positive reviews. It ranked #2 on Metacritic

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's Top 30 albums of 2006, just behind Savane

Savane (album)

Savane is the final solo album by Malian musician Ali Farka Touré. It is the third and final part of the Hôtel Mandé Sessions, featuring Touré and Toumani Diabaté, recorded by World Circuit head Nick Gold...

 by Ali Farka Toure

Ali Farka Touré

Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues...

, and was nominated for the 2006 Shortlist Music Prize

Shortlist Music Prize

The Shortlist Music Prize, stylized as , was an annual music award for the best album released in the United States that had sold fewer than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination...

 and the 2007 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America

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 for shipping over 500,000 copies in the United States

United States

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 and sold over one million copies worldwide making it his best selling album to date.

Alternate editions

Some copies of the initial "limited edition" are autographed by Waits.

A limited amount of other copies came with a special vinyl

Vinyl

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 single, including the songs "Lie to Me" and "Crazy About My Baby".

A 7-disc vinyl box set of the album was released on December 8, 2009. This set contains six additional tracks not found on the CD version.

Chart information

Chart	Peak position
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	74
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	56
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	15
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	22

Disc one: Brawlers

1. "Lie to Me" – 2:10
2. "LowDown" – 4:15
3. "2:19" – 5:02
   • Appears on the Waits-produced John P. Hammond
     John P. Hammond
     John Paul Hammond is an American blues singer and guitarist. The son of record producer John H. Hammond, he is sometimes referred to as "John Hammond, Jr.".-Background:...
     
      recording Wicked Grin (2001)
4. "Fish in the Jailhouse" – 4:22
5. "Bottom of the World" – 5:42
   • Appears in the 2003 documentary film Long Gone
6. "Lucinda" – 4:52
   • (Covered by Jonathan Richard)
7. "Ain't Goin' Down to the Well" (Lead Belly, John Lomax
   John Lomax
   John Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs...
   
   , Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
   
   ) – 2:28
8. "Lord I've Been Changed" (trad. arr. Waits, Brennan) – 2:28
   • Appears on the Waits-produced John P. Hammond recording Wicked Grin as "I Know I've Been Changed" (2001)
9. "Puttin' on the Dog" – 3:39
   • Appears in the 1999 comedy-drama film Liberty Heights
     Liberty Heights
     Liberty Heights is a 1999 comedy-drama film by writer-director Barry Levinson. It is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. It marked the last appearance of Ralph Tabakin, who appeared in cameo roles in every Levinson movie since his first, Diner , a...
     
     
10. "Road to Peace" – 7:17
11. "All the Time" – 4:33
12. "The Return of Jackie and Judy" (Joey Ramone
    Joey Ramone
    Joey Ramone was an American vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist in the punk rock band the Ramones. Joey Ramone's image, voice and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon.-Early life:Joey Ramone was born Jeffry Hyman to parents Noel and Charlotte Hyman...
    
    , Johnny Ramone
    Johnny Ramone
    John William Cummings , better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. He was a founding member of the band, and remained a member throughout the band's entire career...
    
    , Dee Dee Ramone
    Dee Dee Ramone
    Dee Dee Ramone was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, bassist and main songwriter of the punk rock band the Ramones....
    
    ) – 3:28
    • Previously released on the Ramones
      Ramones
      The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group...
      
       tribute album We're a Happy Family
      We're a Happy Family
      We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones is a tribute album to the Ramones by various artists. It started when Johnny Ramone was confronted with the idea of a tribute album and was asked if he wanted to participate, to which he agreed, as long as he would have full control over the project...
      
      (2003)
13. "Walk Away" – 2:43
    • Previously released on the Dead Man Walking
      Dead Man Walking (film)
      Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name...
      
      soundtrack recording
      Dead Man Walking (soundtrack)
      Dead Man Walking is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1996 on Columbia Records.-Track listing:-Charts:Album-Release history:-References:* -External links:* at Discogs*...
      
       (1996)
14. "Sea of Love
    Sea of Love (song)
    "Sea of Love" is a song written by John Phillip Baptiste and George Khoury. Phillips' 1959 recording of the song peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, Marty Wilde covered the song, and Phillips' version failed to chart there...
    
    " (Phil Phillips
    Phil Phillips
    Phil Phillips is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1959 hit, "Sea of Love".-Biography:...
    
    , George Khoury) – 3:43
    • Previously released on the Sea of Love soundtrack recording (1989)
15. "Buzz Fledderjohn" – 4:12
    • Previously released on the "Hold On" single (1999)
16. "Rains on Me" (Waits, Chuck E. Weiss
    Chuck E. Weiss
    -History:Chuck E. Weiss grew up in Denver, Colorado, where his parents owned a record store . Through his parents, and by spending time at the local blues bar Ebbett's Field, he met Lightnin' Hopkins. Lightnin' was impressed with his drum playing and took him on tour, where Weiss had the...
    
    ) – 3:20
    • Previously released on Chuck E. Weiss' 1999 Extremely Cool, then on Free the West Memphis 3
      Free the West Memphis 3
      Free the West Memphis 3 is a compilation album released in 2000 on the KOCH Records label as a benefit for the legal defense of the West Memphis 3. The album was organized by Eddie Spaghetti of Supersuckers...
      
      in 2000. This is the latter version.

Disc two: Bawlers

1. "Bend Down the Branches" – 1:06
   • Previously released on For the Kids
     For the Kids
     For the Kids is an album featuring new renditions of children's songs performed by today's popular artists. In the United States, a portion of the proceeds go to VH1's Save the Music Foundation...
     
     (2002), an album featuring renditions of children's songs by various artists
2. "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" – 2:26
   • Originally appeared in the 2005 Roberto Benigni
     Roberto Benigni
     Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...
     
      film The Tiger and the Snow
     The Tiger and the Snow
     La tigre e la neve is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.The film is a romantic comedy set in contemporary Rome and in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War. The story, inspired by the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," features singer-songwriter Tom Waits as himself in...
     
     .
3. "Long Way Home" – 3:10
   • Previously released on the Big Bad Love
     Big Bad Love
     Big Bad Love is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown. The story recounts an episode in the life of an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and struggling writer named Leon Barlow,...
     
     soundtrack recording (2001)
   • (Covered by Norah Jones
     Norah Jones
     Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
     
     , on her 2004 album Feels like Home)
4. "Widow's Grove" – 4:58
5. "Little Drop of Poison" – 3:09
   • Previously released on The End of Violence
     The End of Violence
     The End of Violence is a 1997 film by the German director Wim Wenders. The film's cast includes Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Andie MacDowell, and Loren Dean, among others. It also features a soundtrack marked with the signature sounds of Wenders regulars Jon Hassell, Ry...
     
     and Shrek 2
     Shrek 2
     Shrek 2 is a 2004 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. It is the second installment in the Shrek film series and the sequel to 2001's Shrek...
     
     soundtrack recordings. The "End of Violence" version differs from this, which is the Shrek 2 version.
6. "Shiny Things" – 2:20
7. "World Keeps Turning" – 4:16
   • Previously released on the Pollock
     Pollock (film)
     Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson.-Plot:...
     
     (2001) soundtrack recording
8. "Tell It to Me" – 3:08
   • Previously recorded as a duet with Ramblin' Jack Elliot as "Louise (Tell It To Me)" (from Elliot's Friends of Mine
     Friends of Mine (Ramblin' Jack Elliott album)
     Friends of Mine is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1998.Guests include Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, and Tom Waits.-Reception:...
     
     ). This version differs from the original with Elliot's absence, and a change in time signature.
9. "Never Let Go" – 3:13
   • Previously appeared on the soundtrack for the 1992 Martin Bell
     Martin Bell
     Martin Bell, OBE, is a British UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician...
     
      film American Heart
     American Heart
     American Heart is a 1993 film by Martin Bell, starring Edward Furlong and Jeff Bridges. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in a number of categories, and won in the Best Male Lead category.-Synopsis:...
     
     .
10. "Fannin Street" – 5:01
    • Song appears on the Waits-produced John P. Hammond recording Wicked Grin (2001) performed by John Hammond. This version by Waits.
11. "Little Man" (Teddy Edwards
    Teddy Edwards
    Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist based on the West Coast of the US. Some consider him to be one of the most influential jazz saxophonists.-Biography:...
    
    ) – 4:33
    • Previously released on Mississippi Lad, an album by Teddy Edwards released in 1991 on the Verve Label
12. "It's Over" – 4:40
    • Previously appeared in a different take on the soundtrack to the 1999 film Liberty Heights
      Liberty Heights
      Liberty Heights is a 1999 comedy-drama film by writer-director Barry Levinson. It is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. It marked the last appearance of Ralph Tabakin, who appeared in cameo roles in every Levinson movie since his first, Diner , a...
      
      .
13. "If I Have to Go" – 2:15
    • Originally from Waits' 1986 theatre play Franks Wild Years
      Franks Wild Years
      Franks Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators for a play of the same name...
      
      , although not released on the studio album of the same name
14. "Goodnight Irene" (Lead Belly, Gussie L. Davis) – 4:47
15. "The Fall of Troy" – 3:01
    • Previously released on the Dead Man Walking
      Dead Man Walking (soundtrack)
      Dead Man Walking is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1996 on Columbia Records.-Track listing:-Charts:Album-Release history:-References:* -External links:* at Discogs*...
      
      soundtrack recording (1996)
16. "Take Care of All My Children" – 2:31
    • Appears in the 1984 documentary film "Streetwise"
17. "Down There by the Train" – 5:39
    • Song appears on the Johnny Cash album American Recordings (1994) performed by Cash. This version by Waits.
18. "Danny Says
    Danny Says
    "Danny Says" is a ballad written by Joey Ramone. The song was originally released as the third track on the Ramones 1980 album, End of the Century. The 2002 Expanded Edition CD of the album includes a demo version of "Danny Says" among the bonus tracks...
    
    " (Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone) – 3:05
19. "Jayne's Blue Wish" – 2:29
    • Previously released on the Big Bad Love soundtrack recording (2002)
20. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh
    Carolyn Leigh
    Carolyn Leigh was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come."-Biography:...
    
    , Johnny Richards) – 3:41

Disc three: Bastards

1. "What Keeps Mankind Alive?
   What Keeps Mankind Alive?
   "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama The Threepenny Opera which premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. The song has been covered by Tom Waits , the Pet Shop Boys, William S...
   
   " (Kurt Weill
   Kurt Weill
   Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
   
   , Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
   
   ) – 2:09
   • From the Threepenny Opera
   • Previously released on the various-artists Weill tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
     Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
     Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill. It was executive-produced by Hal Willner and John Telfer, and produced by Hal Willner and Paul M...
     
     (1985)
2. "Children's Story" – 1:42
   • Based on Georg Büchner
     Georg Büchner
     Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...
     
     's Woyzeck
     Woyzeck
     Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...
     
      (public domain
     Public domain
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     )
3. "Heigh Ho" (Frank Churchill
   Frank Churchill
   Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...
   
   , Larry Morey) – 3:32
   • From the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White And the Seven Dwarfs
     Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
     Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...
     
     
   • Previously released on the various-artists Disney tribute album Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films (1988)
4. "Army Ants" – 3:25
5. "Books of Moses" (Skip Spence
   Skip Spence
   Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence was a Canadian-born musician and singer-songwriter. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. He released one solo album, 1969's Oar, and then largely withdrew from the music industry...
   
   ) – 2:49
   • Previously released on More Oar, a 1999 various-artists tribute to Spence and his solo album Oar
     Oar (Skip Spence album)
     Oar is a 1969 album by the late Skip Spence. It is Spence's only solo album, recorded over seven days in Nashville, on which Spence plays all of the instruments.- History :...
     
     .
6. "Bone Chain" – 1:03
7. "Two Sisters
   The Twa Sisters
   "The Twa Sisters" is a murder ballad that recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her sister. It is first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656 as "The Miller and the King's Daughter." At least 21 English variants exist under several names, including "Minnorie" or "Binnorie", "The Cruel...
   
   " (traditional, arr by Waits / Brennan) – 4:55
8. "First Kiss" – 2:40
9. "Dog Door" (Waits, Brennan, Mark Linkous
   Mark Linkous
   Mark Linkous was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, Sean Terrington Wright, David...
   
   ) – 2:43
   • With Sparklehorse
     Sparklehorse
     Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.-History:Sparklehorse's first album, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot featuring Bob Rupe of the Silos and Cracker, was a modest college radio success...
     
     ; previously released on the Sparklehorse album It's a Wonderful Life
     It's a Wonderful Life (album)
     It's a Wonderful Life is the third album by Virginian indie rock group Sparklehorse, released in 2001. The album features appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Persson, Vic Chesnutt, and Dave Fridmann.-Track listing:...
     
     (2001)
10. "Redrum" – 1:12
11. "Nirvana" – 2:12
    • Words: Charles Bukowski
      Charles Bukowski
      Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
      
      
12. "Home I'll Never Be" – 2:28
    • Words: Jack Kerouac
      Jack Kerouac
      Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
      
      
13. "Poor Little Lamb" (William J. Kennedy, Waits) – 1:43
14. "Altar Boy" – 2:48
    • Originally written for Alice; an earlier version can be found on The Alice Demos, under the title "What Became Of Old Father Craft?"
15. "The Pontiac" – 1:54
    • Originally released on the 1987 spoken word
      Spoken word
      Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
      
       compilation Smack My Crack
16. "Spidey's Wild Ride" – 2:03
17. "King Kong" (Daniel Johnston
    Daniel Johnston
    Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
    
    ) – 5:29
    • Previously released on the Johnston tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
      The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
      The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered is a 2004 Gammon Records two-disc set. The first disc features covers of Daniel Johnston songs by a variety of different artists...
      
      (2004)
18. "On the Road" – 4:14
    • Words: Jack Kerouac. Originally appeared on the 1999 album Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
      Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
      -Critical reception:Richie Unterberger, in his review for Allmusic, describes the album as "a worthy collection of Jack Kerouac's narratives and poetry", noting that it is particularly enjoyable to hear Kerouac recite his work "since his prose had much of a jazz rhythm, and since he was an engaging...
      
      .
19. "Dog Treat" (Hidden track) – 2:56
    • Live recording
20. "Missing My Son" (Hidden track) – 3:38

Disc one

1. "Lie to Me" – 2:10
2. "LowDown" – 4:15
3. "2:19" – 5:02
4. "Fish in the Jailhouse" – 4:22
5. "Bottom of the World" – 5:42
6. "Lucinda" – 4:52
7. "Ain't Goin' Down to the Well" – 2:28
8. "Lord I've Been Changed" – 2:28

Disc two

1. "Puttin' on the Dog" – 3:39
2. "Road to Peace" – 7:17
3. "All the Time" – 4:33
4. "The Return of Jackie and Judy" – 3:28
5. "Walk Away" – 2:43
6. "Sea of Love
   Sea of Love (song)
   "Sea of Love" is a song written by John Phillip Baptiste and George Khoury. Phillips' 1959 recording of the song peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, Marty Wilde covered the song, and Phillips' version failed to chart there...
   
   " – 3:43
7. "Buzz Fledderjohn" – 4:12
8. "Rains on Me" – 3:20

Disc three

1. "Bend Down the Branches" – 1:06
2. "You Can Never Hold Back Spring" – 2:26
3. "Long Way Home" – 3:10
4. "Widow's Grove" – 4:58
5. "Little Drop of Poison" – 3:09
6. "Shiny Things" – 2:20
7. "World Keeps Turning" – 4:16
8. "Tell It to Me" – 3:08
9. "Never Let Go" – 3:13
10. "Fannin Street" – 5:01

Disc four

1. "Little Man" – 4:33
2. "It's Over" – 4:40
3. "If I Have to Go" – 2:15
4. "Goodnight Irene" – 4:47
5. "The Fall of Troy" – 3:01
6. "Take Care of All My Children" – 2:31
7. "Down There By the Train" – 5:39
8. "Danny Says
   Danny Says
   "Danny Says" is a ballad written by Joey Ramone. The song was originally released as the third track on the Ramones 1980 album, End of the Century. The 2002 Expanded Edition CD of the album includes a demo version of "Danny Says" among the bonus tracks...
   
   " – 3:05
9. "Jayne's Blue Wish" – 2:29
10. "Young at Heart" – 3:41

Disc five

1. "What Keeps Mankind Alive" – 2:09
2. "Children's Story" – 1:42
3. "Heigh Ho" – 3:32
4. "Army Ants" – 3:25
5. "Books of Moses" – 2:49
6. "Bone Chain" – 1:03
7. "Two Sisters
   The Twa Sisters
   "The Twa Sisters" is a murder ballad that recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her sister. It is first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656 as "The Miller and the King's Daughter." At least 21 English variants exist under several names, including "Minnorie" or "Binnorie", "The Cruel...
   
   " – 4:55
8. "First Kiss" – 2:40
9. "Dog Door" – 2:43
10. "Redrum" – 1:12

Disc six

1. "Nirvana" – 2:12
2. "Home I'll Never Be" – 2:28
3. "Poor Little Lamb" – 1:43
4. "Altar Boy" – 2:48
5. "The Pontiac" – 1:54
6. "Spidey's Wild Ride" – 2:03
7. "King Kong" – 5:29
8. "On the Road" – 4:14
9. "Dog Treat" – 2:56
10. "Missing My Son" – 3:38

Disc seven

1. "Crazy 'Bout My Baby"
2. "Diamond in Your Mind"
3. "Cannon Song"
4. "Pray"
5. "No One Can Forgive Me"
6. "Mathie Grove
   Matty Groves
   "Matty Groves" is an English folk ballad that describes an adulterous tryst between a man and a woman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It dates to at least the 17th century, and is one of the Child Ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child...
   
   "

Personnel

• Tom Waits – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , pump organ, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Dave Alvin
  Dave Alvin
  Dave Alvin , is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has been one of the leading proponents of 'roots' or 'American' music, bringing together elements of rock-and-roll, blues, rural and tejano music....
  
   – guitar
• Anges Amar – whistle
  Whistle
  A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...
  
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• Ara Anderson – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Ray Armando – percussion
• Bobby Baloo – cowbells, boulders
• Bobby Black – steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• Michael Blair – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
• Andrew Borger – percussion
• Brain
  Bryan Mantia
  Bryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead...
  
   – percussion
• Matt Brubeck – bass
  Bass (instrument)
  Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
  
  
• Dan Cantrell – accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  
• Ralph Carney
  Ralph Carney
  Ralph Carney is an American musician. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets, Carney collects and plays many instruments, often unusual or obscure ones....
  
   – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Crispin Cioe – saxophone
• Bent Clausen – banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  , piano
• Les Claypool
  Les Claypool
  Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.Claypool has also self produced and engineered his...
  
   – bass
• Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Harry Codyc – banjo
• Greg Cohen
  Greg Cohen
  A native of Los Angeles, bassist Greg Cohen has been playing in various acclaimed music groups since the '60s. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar...
  
   – bass
• Eddie Davis – banjo
• Darrel Devore – circular violin
• Seth Ford-Young – bass
• Steve Foreman – percussion
• Mitchell Froom
  Mitchell Froom
  -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
  
   – chamberlin
  Chamberlin
  The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by Iowa, Wisconsin inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. Various models and versions of these Chamberlin music instruments...
  
  
• Bob Funk – trombone
• Joe Gore – guitar
• Chris Grady – trumpet
• Brett Gurewitz
  Brett Gurewitz
  Brett W. Gurewitz , nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records and sister-labels ANTI-, Burning Heart Records, Fat Possum Records, and Hellcat Records...
  
   – guitar
• Ron Hacker – guitar
• John Hammond
  John P. Hammond
  John Paul Hammond is an American blues singer and guitarist. The son of record producer John H. Hammond, he is sometimes referred to as "John Hammond, Jr.".-Background:...
  
   – harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  
• Arno Hecht – saxophone
• Billy Higgins – drums
• Art Hillery – piano
• Stephen Hodges – percussion
• Bart Hopkin – bamboo clarinet
• Trevor Horn
  Trevor Horn
  Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
  
   – bass
• Carla Kihlstedt
  Carla Kihlstedt
  Carla Kihlstedt is an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania currently living in Oakland, California....
  
   – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Guy Klucevsek – accordion
• Gary Knowlton – keyboards
• Mike Knowlton – guitar
• Larry LaLonde
  Larry LaLonde
  Larry "Ler" LaLonde is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Jay Lane...
  
   – guitar
• Adam Lane – bass
• Mark Linkous
  Mark Linkous
  Mark Linkous was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, Sean Terrington Wright, David...
  
   – guitar, bass, drums
• Paul "Hollywood" Litteral – trumpet
• Charlie Musselwhite
  Charlie Musselwhite
  Charlie Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman", he claims Native American heritage...
  
   – harmonica
• Tom Nunn – The Bug
• Eric Perney – bass
• Nic Phelps – horns
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
  
• Dan Plonsey
  Dan Plonsey
  Dan Plonsey is a jazz saxophonist, popularly labeled as a free jazz musician. -Career:...
  
   – clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Steve Prutsman – piano
• Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
  
   – guitar
• Bebe Risenfors – clarinet
• Gino Robair – percussion
• Mike Silverman
  That 1 Guy
  Mike Silverman, better known as That 1 Guy, is an American musician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He frequently performs and records as a one-man band, singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments.-Early career:...
  
   – bass
• Jeff Sloan – percussion
• Nolan Smith – trumpet
• Matthew Sperry – bass
• Colin Stetson – saxophone
• Larry Taylor
  Larry Taylor
  Larry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
  
   – bass
• Francis Thumm – piano
• Leroy Vinnegar
  Leroy Vinnegar
  Leroy Vinnegar was an American jazz bassist.Born in Indianapolis, the self-taught Vinnegar established his reputation in Los Angeles during the 1950s and 1960s. His trademark was the rhythmic "walking" bass line, a steady series of ascending or descending notes, and it brought him the nickname...
  
   – bass
• Casey Waits – drums
• Sullivan Waits – guitar
• Richard Waters – waterphone
  Waterphone
  A waterphone is a type of atonal acoustic musical instrument constructed largely of a stainless steel resonator "bowl" with a cylindrical "neck", which may or may not contain a small amount of water, and with brass rods around the rim of the bowl. The waterphone produces a vibrant ethereal type of...
  
  
• Tom Yoder – trombone

External links

• ANTI.com information page
• Tom Waits Library - Lyrics and information on all of the songs on Orphans