Format Details: Jewel Case
Release Date: 26 June 2026
Label: Ace Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667115827
Description
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan join luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro in Ace Records' long-running series of multi-artist compilations celebrating the great American songwriters of the modern era With his longtime 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. This 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 Our selection is sequenced chronologically by song, opening with Bruce Springsteen's dramatic live recording of 'Jersey Girl', Waits' ode to Brennan from 1980's "Heartattack And Vine", and closing with folk great Joan Baez's version of Waits and Brennan's anti-war 'Day After Tomorrow' from Waits' 2004 album "Real Gone" The couple's first-released joint composition, 'Hang Down Your Head' from "Rain Dogs", is heard here in a raunchy rendition by country-blues heroine Lucinda Williams. Elsewhere, performers from the worlds of jazz, blues, gospel, soul and rock put their own stamps on Waits and Brennan classics Pride of place - because it's a particular favourite of Waits and proved incredibly challenging to license - goes to the heart-wrenching recording of 'Down There By The Train' from Johnny Cash's late-life masterpiece "American Recordings" The announcement has already generated huge excitement, from posts on Tom Waits' social media pages and news stories in Uncut, Pitchfork, NME, Relix and Consequence Of Sound
Tracklisting
Young Jessie
Wynonie Harris
Willie Hightower
Willie Headen
Wayne Cochran
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Walter Horton
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
