Bad As Me (LP)

Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His singular vision embraces everything from blues to tin-pan-alley to jazz to just about anything else you can think of. Grammy winner, actor, poet, a master of the musical collage and lyrical surprise, Tom Waits is simply a giant.

Bad as Me is a pivotal work which refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of "Chicago", to the closing barroom chorale of "New Year's Eve", Bad As Me displays the full career range of Waits' songwriting, from beautiful ballads like "Last Leaf", to the avant cinematic soundscape of "Hell Broke Luce", a battlefront dispatch.