Summertime/Burma-Shave - Tom Waits / Fast Women & Slow Horses (State Theatre, Sydney, March '79) [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Summertime/Burma-Shave | Tom Waits

Probably my favourite version of Burma Shave that I’ve heard. From the bootleg Fast Women and Slow Horses (also known as On Broadway and Cold Beer on a Hot Night) that is a recording from Sydney, Australia in 1979. It features Tom merging the melodies of Summertime and Burma-Shave, a fantastic ramble and homage to Elvis before he goes on to an expanded version of Burma-Shave. Those incredibly powerful and intensely visual lyrics of the piece are abundant as Waits conjures the dark narrative and it concludes with him despairingly singing the lyrics of Summertime in a fantastic contrast to the depressing end of the song. Sublime stuff.

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∞Posted on January 7, 2012

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