BRAWLERS (REMASTERED) | VINYL RECORD (LP) S 1977's The Belle Album was

1977's The Belle Album was a celebration of something new

While Cloak might rage against societal conventions

it's again easy to understand the song and group's enduring popularity in it's homeland

Alone Together was my first solo album

the same year she spent several weeks in psychiatric treatment at McLean Hospital near Boston

BRAWLERS (REMASTERED) | VINYL RECORD (LP) S 1977's The Belle Album wasBrawlers presents probably the best known of Tom Waits' personalities, filled as it is with vocal cord damage, found percussion, old timey arrangements, and cartoon buzz lead guitar. It's also the disc that flirts most dangerously with clich, filled as it is with his well trod inventory of Americana underbelly images: trains, jailhouses, barrooms, etc. However, the secret of Waits' act is how well he deploys these should be tired cultural touchstones;