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“Fumblin’ With The Blues” by Tom Waits (live bootleg)
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Burma-Shave/Summertime (part two)
ol’ 55 by tom waits
live in 1999, about twenty-six years after its release. tom waits usually doesn’t like playing his older stuff, but i guess he felt like making an exception that day.
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Telephone Call From Istanbul
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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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By Ken Tsukamoto
Martha, live, 1974
