Name: Mule Variations
Brand: Tom Waits

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

86547-1LP

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

045778654710

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Tom Waits

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Anti

Seven years passed between the release of Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

During that time Tom Waits eschewed cutting another conventional (the term used loosely here) song collection, occupying his time with acting projects, a soundtrack (Night On Earth), a stage project (The Black Rider), and sundry smaller diversions. What's surprising about Mule Variations is how little he's strayed from the old bone yard through the years. As with his Grammy-winning 1992 outing, Waits intersperses the tough and the tender, mixing exercises in creative noisemaking with tunes that fall on just the right side of maudlin. As with Bone Machine's "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me," "What's He Building?" is an experiment in word jazz that owes a debt to its creator, Ken Nordine. Waits has again assembled a crew of attuned sidemen (including Primus and Steadfast Backers Ralph Carney, Larry Taylor, and Joe Gore). and, as always, Waits and his wife-cosongwriter-coproducer Kathleen Brennan exhibit an uncanny ear for the arcane.

Mule Variations

Music US