The last one of the collection I got early this year is a bit of an odd one, especially to find it in a collection of mostly classical records. Lie to me was added as a bonus disc with the original so called limited edition release of Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards. Since there is no picture on the cover, I suppose this is one of those. So now I’m wondering if the whole set was once in the same collection and I missed it.
Orphans is a huge collection of three albums in one. A strange collection of all kinds of songs, of which Tom Waits himself said: A lot of songs that fell behind the stove while making dinner, about 60 tunes that we collected. Some are from films, some from compilations. Some is stuff that didn’t fit on a record, things I recorded in the garage with kids. Oddball things, orphaned tunes. A tune as an orphan, an interesting concept.