Bruce Springsteen and Willie Nelson to feature on new Tom Waits covers compilation
Tom Waits has announced a covers compilation of his music, which will include the likes of Solomon Burke, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Bob Seger, Diana Krall, John Hammond, and more.
The star made the announcement via social media, uploading the album art for Where the Willow and the Dogwood Grow, with a promise that the project is set for release on May 29th.
The official announcement explains, “With his long-time creative partner and wife Kathleen Brennan, [Waits] has dismantled and reassembled the idea of song itself, crafting works that exist as both raw expression and high art.”
Waits and collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan have ordered the covers chronologically. The album, therefore, opens with Bruce Springsteen’s live recording of ‘Jersey Girl’, Waits’ ode to Brennan from the 1980’s album Heartattack And Vine.
18 songs later, the compilation promises to end gracefully with Joan Baez’s version of ‘Day After Tomorrow’ from 2004’s Real Gone.
The album will also come with extensive sleeve notes featuring a track-by-track commentary, digging into the particularities of each recording.
The team behind the upcoming release have shared that the “collection honours not only the extraordinary versatility of Waits and Brennan’s songwriting, but the importance of an artist who continues to haunt and inspire from the edges inward.”
Check out the full tracklist below.
Where the Willow and the Dogwood Grow tracklist:
- ‘Jersey Girl’ – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (Live at Meadowlands Arena, NJ – July 1981)
- ’16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six’ – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
- ‘Gin-Soaked Boy’ – Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes
- ‘Jockey Full Of Bourbon’ – Los Lobos
- ‘Hang Down Your Head’ – Lucinda Williams
- ‘Temptation’ – Diana Krall
- ‘Yesterday Is Here’ – Bettye LaVette
- ‘Way Down In The Hole’ – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
- ‘Strange Weather’ – Marianne Faithfull
- ‘I Don’t Want To Grow Up’ – Ramones
- ‘Down There By The Train’ – Johnny Cash
- ‘House Where Nobody Lives’ – King Ernest
- ‘Picture In A Frame’ – Willie Nelson
- ‘Hold On’ – Madison Cunningham
- ‘The Long Way Home’ – Norah Jones
- ‘2:19’ – John Hammond
- ‘Diamond In Your Mind’ – Solomon Burke
- ‘Trampled Rose’ – Alison Kraus and Robert Plant
- ‘Day After Tomorrow’ – Joan Baez
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