Saturday, August 9, 2008

Tom Waits concert

We saw the best concert in the world a couple months ago up in Phoenix, this is a posting of the setlist, some reviews follow:


Set List: Tom Waits, Phoenix 2008

TomwaitsOn a day that was 110 degrees, Tom Waits opened his world tour Tuesday in Phoenix at the 1,364-seat Orpheum Theater with an excellent two-hour set. It has been, apparently, 30 years since he played Arizona's largest city; it's his first full-scale tour in eight years.
Perhaps not surprising, the best represented album in the set was "Mule Variations," the 1999 album that was supported by something of a comeback tour. (He also toured in 2006). On June 17, the first of two nights in Phoenix, Waits and his band, which featured his son Casey and jazz saxophonist Vincent Henry, played:

Lucinda / Hoist That Rag / Come On Up to the House / Jesus Gonna Be Here / November / Black Market Baby / Rain Dogs / Trampled Rose / Goin Out West / Murder in the Red Barn / Anywhere I Lay My Head / Cemetery Polka / Get Behind the Mule / The Eyeball Kid / Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis / Picture in a Frame / Invitation to the Blues / Innocent When You Dream / Lie to Me / Chocolate Jesus / Down in the Hole / God's Away on Business / Time


Here's some more links:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/18/tom-waits-spins-yarns-sings-about-jesus-at-tour-opener-in-phoenix/

http://the3penguins.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html 


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