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come on up to the house

11/27/2019

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Come on Up to the House: Women Sing Waits – Various Artists from the album Come on Up to the House: Women Sing Waits available on Dualtone Records (by Bryant Liggett)
Tom Waits may find a new audience thanks to the women paying tribute to the man by covering his songs with Come on Up to the House: Women Sing Waits. Most won’t argue Waits’ songwriting prowess and musical contributions of the last four decades, his limits for his own recordings is the delivery in a gruff, gravelly, drunken growl of a voice. His songs have become major hits a cover tunes for other artists, proving how his music lasts, standing the tests of time. The twelve cuts covered by the ladies on Come on Up To My House: Women Sing Waits are given life via a sweet dose of seventies AM-Gold in the recordings.
 
Audiences were treated to the female treatment of “Hold On” when it was sung by a character in the television show The Walking Dead, Aimee Mann’s take turns the tune into a sparkling sad gem. “Ol’ 55” may be a forgotten as being penned by Tom Waits tune thanks to ownership that the Eagles placed on the track while “Jersey Girl” gets Bruce Springsteen seems to have sprung directly from The Boss’ bloodline. For Come on Up to the House, “Ol 55” features a remake with beautiful harmonies by Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer while “Jersey Girl” by Corinne Bailey-Rae becomes a dreamy lullabye.  “You Can Never Hold Back Spring” is an ethereal cut with Kat Edmonson sounding like she’s stepping in from 1948 and “House Where Nobody Lives,” already the saddest song of the bunch in title alone, is a full-blown drama as an Iris Dement weeper.  Tom Waits’ work has always been theatrically dramatic. Come on Up to the House: Women Sing Waits, which also includes contributions from Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin and The Wild Reeds among others, shines a new light on Waits timeless work. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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Bob Wesley
1/20/2020 10:17:02 pm

It's a good album! I wish they would do a Volume 2. There are many more good Tom Waits songs to do!

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