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Mule Variations (1999)

1. Big In Japan 2. Lowside Of The Road 3. Hold On 4. Get Behind The Mule 5. House Where Nobody Lives 6. Cold Water 7. Pony 8. Whats He Building? 9. Black Market Baby 10. Eyeball Kid 11. Picture In A Frame 12. Chocolate Jesus 13. Georgia Lee 14. Filipino Box Spring Hog 15. Take It With Me 16. Come On Up To The House

Other Songs 16 Shells From A 30.06 16 Shells From A 30.6 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six 2:19 $29.00 9th and Hennepin 9th & Hennepin A Good Man Is Hard To Find A Little Rain A Sight For Sore Eyes A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun After You Die Aint Goin Down To The Well Alice All Stripped Down All The Time All The World Is Green Altar Boy Annie's Back in Town Another Mans Vine Anywhere I Lay My Head Army Ants Baby Gonna Leave Me Baby Im Not A Baby Anymore Back In The Crowd Back In The Good Old World Bad As Me Bad Liver a Broken Heart Bad Liver And A Broken Heart Barber Shop Barcarolle Bend Down The Branches Better Off Without A Wife Big Black Mariah Big Joe And Phantom 309 Black Box Theme Black Wings Blind Love Blow Wind Blow Blue Skies Blue Valentines Bone Chain Books Of Moses Bottom Of The World Bride Of Rain Dog Broken Bicycles Burma Shave Burma-Shave Buzz Fledderjohn Calliope Candy Apple Red Carnival Cemetery Polka Chicago Chick A Boom Childrens Story Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis Christmas Cards From A Hooker In Minneapolis Circus Clang Boom Steam Clap Hands Closing Time Cold Cold Ground Coney Island Baby Crossroads Danny Says Dave The Butcher Day After Tomorrow Dead And Lovely Depot Depot Diamonds and Gold Diamonds & Gold Diamonds On My Windshield Dirt In The Ground Dog Door Dog Treat Dont Go Into That Barn Down Down Down Down There By The Train Downtown Downtown Train Drunk On The Moon Earth Died Screaming Eggs And Sausage Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson) Emotional Weather Report Everything Goes To Hell Everything You Can Think Face To The Highway Fall of Troy Falling Down Fannin Street Fawn First Kiss Fish and Bird Fish & Bird Fish In The Jailhouse Flash Pan Hunter Flash Pan Hunter / Intro Flowers Grave Foreign Affair Franks Song Franks Theme Franks Wild Years Fumblin With The Blues Get Lost Gin Soaked Boy Gods Away On Business Goin Down Slow Goin Out West Good Old World Good Old World (Waltz) Goodnight Irene Gospel Train Gospel Train / Orchestra Gospel Train / Orchestra Grapefruit Moon Green Grass Gun Street Girl Had Me A Girl Hang Down Your Head Hang On St. Christopher Heart of Saturday Night Heartattack And Vine Heigh Ho! Hell Broke Luce Hoist That Rag Home Ill Never Be Hope I Dont Fall In Love With You Hows It Gonna End I Beg Your Pardon I Cant Wait To Get Off Work I Dont Wanna Grow Up I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You I Never Talk To Strangers I Want You I Wish I Was In New Orleans Ice Cream Man If I Have To Go Ill Be Gone Ill Shoot The Moon Ill Take New York Im Still Here Im Your Late Night Evening Prostitute In Between Love In Shades In The Colosseum In The Neighborhood Innocent When You Dream Instrumental Montage: The Tango/Circus Girl Interlude Invitation To The Blues Its Over Jaynes Blue Wish Jersey Girl Jesus Gonna Be Here Jitterbug Boy Jitterburg Boys Jockey Full Of Bourbon Johnsburg Illinois Just Another Sucker On The Vine Just The Right Bullets Kentuchy Avenue Kentucky Anvenue Kentucky Avenue King Kong Kiss Me Knife Chase Kommienezuspadt Last Leaf Let Me Get Up On It Lie To Me Little Boy Blue Little Drop Of Poison Little Man Little Rain (For Clyde) Little Trip To Heaven Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love) Live Circus Lonely Long Way Home (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night Looks Like Im Up Shit Creek Again Lord Ive Been Changed Lost In The Harbor Lost In The Harbour LowDown Lucinda Lucky Day Lucky Day Overture Lullaby Make It Rain Martha Medley: Jack and Neal / California Here I Come Medley: Jack and Neal / California Here I Come Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come Metropolitan Glide Midnight Lullaby Midnight Lullabye Midtown Misery Is The River Of The World Missing My Son Mockin Bird More Than Rain Mr. Henry Mr. Siegal Murder In The Red Barn Muriel Never Let Go New Coat Of Paint New Years Eve Nighthawk Postcards Nirvana No Can Forgive Me But My Baby No One Knows Im Gone Nobody November Oily Night Ol 55 Old Shoes Old Shoes ( Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) Old Shoes (andamp; Picture Postcards) Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) On A Foggy Night On The Nickel On The Other Side Of The World On The Road Once Upon A Town/Empty Pockets (Opening Intro) Pasties And A G String Pasties And A G-String Pay Me Picking Up After You Please Call Me Baby Please Wake Me Up Ponchos Lament Poor Edward Poor Little Lamb Potters Field Putnam County Puttin On The Dog Putting on the Dog Rain Dogs Rainbirds Rains On Me Raised Right Men Red Shoes Red Shoes By The Drugstore Redrum Reeperbahn Road To Peace Rockin Chair Romeo Is Bleeding Rosie Rubys Arms Russian Dance San Diego Serenade Satisfied Saving All My Love For You Sea Of Love Semi Suite Shake It She Stole The Blush Shiny Things Shiver Me Timbers Shore Leave Singapore Sins Of My Father Small Change Small Change/Hey Big Spender So It Goes So Long Ill See Ya Soldiers Things Somewhere Spare Parts I Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) Spare Parts II And Closing Spideys Wild Ride Starving In The Belly Of A Whale Starving in the Belly of the Whale Step Right Up Story Straight To The Top Strange Weather Such A Scream Swordfishtrombone Swordfishtrombones Table Top Joe TAint No Sin Take Care Of All My Children Talking At The Same Time Tango Til Theyre Sore Tango Till Theyre Sore Telephone Call From Istanbul Tell It To Me Tell Me Temptation That Feel Thats The Way The Black Rider The Briar And The Rose The Fall Of Troy The Ghosts of Saturday Night The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House) The Last Rose Of Summer The Ocean Doesnt Want Me The One That Got Away The Part You Throw Away The Piano Has Been Drinking The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) The Pontiac The Return Of Jackie And Judy The World Keeps Turning This One's from the Heart Til The Money Runs Out Time Tom Tales Tom Trauberts Blues Tom Trauberts Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Top Of The Hill Town With No Cheer Train Song Trampled Rose Troubles Braids Two Sisters Underground Union Square Untitled Track Virginia Avenue Walk Away Walking Spanish Warm Beer And Cold Women Watch Her Disappear Way Down In The Hole Were All Mad Here What Keeps Mankind Alive When You Aint Got Nobody Whislin Past The Graveyard Whistle Down The Wind Whistle Down the Wind (For Tom Jans) Whistlin Past The Graveyard Who Are You? Widows Grove Woe World Keeps Turning Wrong Side Of The Road Yesterday Is Here You Can Never Hold Back Spring You Cant Unring A Bell Young At Heart

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Tom Waits Info:

Thomas Alan Waits is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk, hip hop and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Per The Wall Street Journal, Waits "has composed a body of work that's at least comparable to any songwriter's in pop today.

A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden, Mr. Waits creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view. Their stories are accompanied by music that's unlike any other in pop history.”

Tom Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums were the jazzy Closing Time (1973), The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) and Nighthawks at the Diner (1975), which reflected his lyrical interest in poverty, criminality and nightlife. He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe and Japan, and found greater critical and commercial success with Small Change (1976), Blue Valentine (1978) and Heartattack and Vine (1980).

During this period, Waits entered the world of film, acting in Paradise Alley (1978), where he met a young story editor named Kathleen Brennan. He composed the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1982) and made cameos in several subsequent Coppola films.

In 1980, Waits married Brennan, split from his manager and record label, and moved to New York City. With Brennan's encouragement and frequent collaboration, he pursued a more eclectic and experimental sound influenced by Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart, as heard on the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987). Waits starred in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law (1986), lent his voice to his Mystery Train (1989), composed the soundtrack for his Night on Earth (1991) and appeared in his Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). He collaborated with Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs on the "cowboy opera" The Black Rider (1990), the songs for which were released on the album of the same name. Waits and Wilson collaborated again on Alice (2002) and Woyzeck (2000). Bone Machine (1992) and Mule Variations (1999) won Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Contemporary Folk Album, respectively. In 2002, the songs from Alice and Wozzeck were recorded and released on the albums Alice and Blood Money. Waits went on to release Real Gone (2004), the compilation Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006), the live album Glitter and Doom Live (2009) and Bad as Me (2011).

Waits has influenced many artists and gained an international cult following. His songs have been covered by Bruce Springsteen, Tori Amos, Rod Stewart and the Ramones and he has written songs for Johnny Cash and Norah Jones, among others. In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Introducing him, Neil Young said "This next man is indescribable, and I'm here to describe him. He's sort of a performer, singer, actor, magician, spirit guide, changeling... I think it's great that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has recognized this immense talent. Could have been the Motion Picture Hall of Fame, could have been the Blues Hall of Fame, could have been the Performance Artist Hall of Fame, but it was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that recognized the great Tom Waits."

In accepting the award, Waits mused, "They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing!"
-Wikipedia

Birth Name: Thomas Alan Waits
Born: December 7, 1949 (age 74)
From: Pomona, California, U.S.
Spouse(s): Kathleen Brennan (m. 1980)
Children: 3
Genre(s): Experimental, rock, blues, jazz
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium
Active From: 1969-present

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