BLUE SKIES (Tom Waits)
From the ’Heart of Saturday Night’ sessions.
Recorded December 26, 1973.
Released as a single in 1974.
Available on the bootleg ’A Nickel’s Worth of Dreams’
Acoustic version available on ’The Early Years Volume Two’.
JERSEY GIRL (Tom Waits)
Alternative version, just vocals and guitar.
Taken from the compilation album ’Bounced Checks’ 1981.
WHISTLIN’ PAST THE GRAVEYARD (Tom Waits)
Alternative take, quite similar to the released track.
Taken from the compilation album ’Bounced Checks’ 1981
MR HENRY (Tom Waits)
Late 70's outtake, officially released on the compilation album ’Bounced Checks’ 1981.
DOWNTOWN TRAIN (Tom Waits)
Wrongly listed as an "NME mix", this is really the 'Rain Dogs' album track. The real NME track - originally on 'NME's Big Four' (NME GIV 3) in 1986 - is an outtake with slightly different guitar and some alternative lyrics. It can nowadays be heard on the great remastered bootleg 'Tales from the Riverside', available for trade, not for sale.
I’M NOT YOUR FOOL ANYMORE (Teddy Edwards)
Taken from Teddy Edwards’ album ’Mississippi Lad’ 1991.
- Tom Waits: Vocals
Teddy Edwards: Tenor saxophone
Nolan Andrew Smith: Trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland: Trombone
Art Hillery: Piano
Leroy Vinnegar: Bass
Billy Higgins: Drums
- Produced by Jean-Philippe Allard
ADIOS LOUNGE (Bob Kuhn / George M Kuhn)
Taken from Thelonius Monster’s album ’Beautiful Mess’ 1992.
- Bob Forrest: Vocals
Dix Denney: Guitar
Chris Handsome: Guitar
Peter Weiss: Drums
Martin LeNoble: Bass
Tom Waits: Additional vocals
Al Kooper: Keyboards
Sam Bush: Mandolin
Produced by Al Kooper
SEA OF LOVE (Phil Battiste / George Khoury)
Taken from the ’Sea of Love’ soundtrack 1989.
Original recording by Phil Phillips and the Twilights 1959.
SILENT NIGHT
Taken from a single by S.O.S. United 1989
Tom Waits: Vocals
LITTLE MAN (Teddy Edwards)
Taken from Teddy Edwards’ album ’Mississippi Lad’ 1991.
- Tom Waits: Vocals and guitar
Teddy Edwards: Tenor saxophone
Art Hillery: Piano
Leroy Vinnegar: Bass
- Produced by Jean-Philippe Allard
WHAT KEEPS MANKIND ALIVE (Kurt Weill)
Taken from ’Lost in the Stars : The Music of Kurt Weill’ 1985.
HEIGH-HO (THE DWARFS’ MARCHING SONG)
(Larry Morey / Frank Churchill)
Taken from ’Stay Awake : Various Interpretations of Music from
Vintage Disney Films’ 1988.
Original recording by Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights, in the film
’Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ 1938.
- Tom Waits: Vocals
Tchad Blake: Optigon programming
Mitchell Froom: Chamberlin
Val Kuklowsky: Sound effects
Marc Ribot: Guitar
Larry Taylor: Bass
THE PIANO HAS BEEN DRINKING (Tom Waits)
Live in Dublin, March 1981.
Taken from the compilation album ’Bounced Checks’ 1981.
IT’S ALL RIGHT WITH ME (Cole Porter)
Taken from ’Red Hot + Blue : A Tribute to Cole Porter’ 1990.
Original version by Peter Cookson, in the musical ’Can-Can’ 1953.
- Tom Waits: Vocals, chamberlain, percussion
Greg Cohen: Percussion-
- Produced by Tom Waits and Greg Cohen.
TOMMY THE CAT (Primus / Les Claypool)
Taken from Primus’ album ’Sailing the Seas of Cheese’ 1991
- Tom Waits: Vocals
Les Claypool: Bass and vocals
Larry LaLonde: Guitar
Tim "Herb" Alexander: Drums
FILIPINO BOX SPRING HOG (Early version) (Tom Waits)
Early version, recorded during the 'Bone Machine' sessions 1992.
Taken from the various artists compilation ’Born to Choose’ 1993.
- Tom Waits: Vocals, percussion
David Hidalgo: Fiddle
Larry Taylor: Bass
16 SHELLS FROM A THIRTY-OUGHT SIX (Tom Waits)
Live at Folies Bergere, in Paris on November 16, 1985.
Available on the bootleg 'Paris at Midnight'.
RAIN DOGS (Tom Waits)
Live at Folies Bergere, in Paris on November 16, 1985.
Available on the bootleg 'Paris at Midnight'.
JESUS BLOOD NEVER FAILED ME YET (CODA) (Excerpt)
(Gavin Bryars)
Taken from Gavin Bryars’ album ’Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ 1993.
Tom Waits: Vocals (with a London tramp).
Produced by Michael Riesman.
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