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Tom Waits

Blow, Wind Blow

Experimental, Avant-Garde, Rock, Cabaret
  • Blues
  • Rock
  • Space
  • Vocal
  • House
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1987
  • 1987
  • 1973
  • 1986
  • 2001
  • 1980

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Franks Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled “Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts”, the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The shared title of the album and the play is an iteration of “Frank’s Wild Years”, a song from Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones. The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Various versions of “Way Down in the Hole” were used as the theme music for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits’ original version for the second season. The songs “Temptation” and “Cold Cold Ground” were used in the film “Léolo” of... Read on...

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More songs by Tom Waits (See Charts): Way Down In The Hole, Looks Like I'M Up Shit Creek Again, The Ocean Doesn'T Want Me, That Feel, Mockin' Bird, Bad As Me, Hell Broke Luce, Hang Down Your Head, Down, Down, Down, and God'S Away On Business.

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