Comments on: Tom’s Orphanage: Bawlers

By: Neil Brown

Neil Brown — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:30:30 +0000

A friend of mine once sent me a bootleg called “Rats and Angry Flowers.” The first fourteen tracks are live, but there are some recordings from a radio interview at the end.

One of the radio tracks is a version of “Fall of Troy” where it is just Tom and a piano. It is very good and was the only one I’d ever heard until Orphans came out. Waits describes it as “kind of an obscure one.”

Highly recommended listening if you can track it down.

By: Alan Nolan

Alan Nolan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:27:56 +0000

Hi
I think you got it in one – If I Have To Go is one of those stunning little songs short, but absolutely complete – like Take Me Home, which is only one minute but again complete & perfect as a song. Like you I pressed repeat it about 20 times – I need to work out the chords – its too good not to try.

By the way is it only us Irish people who respond to Tom Waites?
Regards
Alan

By: Matthias Röder

Matthias Röder — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:19:07 +0000

Thanks a lot, Gary for your help!

Matthias

By: gary quinn

gary quinn — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:27:00 +0000

re: widow’s grove, the thing like a balalaika is probably a cittern, it like a lower-[itched irish ukelele i guess, not so dissimilar from a balalaika,

Gary