FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 22, 2018
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ANTI- RECORDS RE-RELEASES TOM WAITS 1970s ELEKTRA ASYLUM CATALOGUE, AVAILABLE ON CD TOMORROW AND AVAILABLE NOW TO DOWNLOAD AND STREAM

 LISTEN TO WAITS’ PERSONALLY CURATED 76-SONG CAREER SPANNING PLAYLIST VIA SPOTIFY AND APPLE MUSIC

LIMITED EDITION RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE: THE 2006 CERTIFIED GOLD TRIPLE ALBUM “ORPHANS: BRAWLERS, BAWLERS AND BASTARDS” WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS INDIVIDUAL TITLES IN 180G RED, BLUE AND GREY VINYL

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“Familiar, compelling, and tugging out empathy” – Entertainment Weekly

“No contemporary musician embodies the twin virtues of elegance and piracy better than Tom Waits. He is a gravel-voiced poet, the Edward Hopper of rock n’ roll.” – Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning

Tom Waits’ first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s are now available digitally and will be available on CD tomorrow HERE. All seven titles – many of which have been long out of print – are to be re-released on hi quality 180-gram vinyl throughout 2018. The time-honored and critically acclaimed debut album Closing Time can be purchased on vinyl HERE and the six additional titles – “Heart of Saturday Night”, “Nighthawks at the Diner”, “Small Change”, “Foreign Affairs”, “Blue Valentine” and “Heartattack and Vine” – will be available for vinyl pre-order tomorrow HERE. Additionally, the Tom Waits Web Store will exclusively offer limited editions of 1000 clear 180-gram vinyl per title in the US and 1000 180-gram moss green vinyl in Europe. Those will be available for pre-order tomorrow HERE.

To coincide with all these catalogue re-releases, Waits has personally curated a 76-song playlist spanning his entire career. You can now explore Waits’ many styles of storytelling and heartbreaking melodies via Spotify and Apple Music.

On Record Store Day 2018 Waits will debut his 2006 certified gold triple album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards which will be available as individual vinyl pieces for the first time ever on red, blue and grey 180-gram limited edition vinyl exclusively on April 21 in record stores across the United States.

Orphans is a collection of 56 songs that goes beyond a simple career retrospective, featuring vintage and newly recorded songs from 1984 to the mid-nineties. Over two thirds of the songs had previously never been released by Waits before it’s original release in 2006. The collection is divided by genre; Brawlers is filled with raucous blues and full-throated juke joint stomps; Bawlers is classic lyrical Waits songs, including Celtic and country ballads, waltzes and lullabies; Finally, Bastards is a collection of experimental music and strange tales. Grammy nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album and certified Gold in the US, UK and Canada, the Orphans three-disc collection was called “a definitive album” by Rolling Stone.

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