By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Jun 18, 2008, at 1:59 PM Updated on 6/18 at 1:59 PM
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And judging by this Rolling Stone review of
Tom Waits' new tour, we all should be. Waits is performing at the
Brady Theater on June 25.
From Rolling Stone online:
The 25 songs the band played were fever dreams from an old, weird America whose greatest trick has been convincing the world it’s been eradicated by modern life: an underworld of “Rain Dogs,” “Eyeball Kids” and “Black Market Babies”; of “Trampled Roses” and “Christmas Cards from Hookers in Minneapolis.” “Jesus Gonna Be Here” Waits coughed, but “God’s Away on Business.” Waits’ subjects are down and out American grotesques, and he spent the better part of his performance playing the demented preacher to that set: slightly oversized suit and bowler hat, arms spread out to their length, palms down, wide hands quavering or waggling an index finger. “Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?” he sang. “Come on up to the house.” -- Bret Gladstone
Read the full review HERE
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