The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ greatest album

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...
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Tom Waits Shares Previously Unreleased Version of “Get Behind The Mule” For Its 25th Anniversary

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release Mule ...
Rolling Stone

Hear Tom Waits’ Unreleased, Stripped-Down, ‘Spiritual’ Version of ‘Get Behind the Mule’

To mark the 25th anniversary of both Tom Waits’ Mule Variations and the record label Anti, an unreleased “Spiritual” rendition of the standout “Get Behind the Mule” has been unearthed for the first ...