Sunday, March 12, 2006

XperDunn at Home - 3/9/6 -Tom Waits songbook selections

OK - here it is. My best attempts to date at some of the best songs of one of my favorite composers:
t01-Annie's Back In Town

t02-I Wish I Was In New Orleans

t03-Ol' 55

t04-Jersey Girl

t05-Tom Trauberts Blues

t06-Burma Shave

t07-Burma Shave (Instrumen)

t08-XD's Improv (Not a Tom Waits song)

t09-The Ghost Of Saturday Night

t10-Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night

T11-Old Boyfriends

t12-On The Nickel

t13-Shiver Me Timbers

t14-Martha

t15-I Never Talk To Strangers

Saturday, March 11, 2006

16-Take Me Home

Ordinarily, I wouldn't have inflicted the preceding on the world, but I had just had my piano tuned and I was seized with a surfeit of enthusiasm. I don't think I'll bother recording any more Waits songs until I have a handle on the vocals. That's how I came to know these songs, by his basso rasp and, while I haven't a hope of creating the same timbre, I realize that these songs are not meant for purely piano arrangement.