Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

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This man, if you didn't already know, is a musical genius, and in just under a month he releases Orphans, a three disk compilation of unreleased material. Already available online is the seven minute ditty "Road to Peace," Waits' take on the Middle East and the current administration.

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Even when he's really really unbearable (as he was on a lot of the Mule Variations album, he's still a musical genius. I can't think of a more significant song writer and performer in the past 30 years than Tom Waits.

Nighthawks at the Diner is top-10 album material IMO.
I'm also totally into Raindogs.
A lot of his other stuff? not so much.