Also, I checked ticketmaster today and Ohio and Atlanta Waits shows are going in the 65-72 dollar range. No word on Chicago, but those prices are lower than I expected.

That's not too far off from what I paid in Boston for the MULE VARIATIONS tour t /memfault years ago, so scarf those puppies up if you can!!!

Seriously - if I wasn't evented out at this point from multiple weddings, I'd try and get Chicago tickets and visit that city for the first time just to see Waits again.

Is there a new album due/out, or is this just delayed REAL GONE and/or playing the tunes for the masses?

Is there a new album due/out, or is this just delayed REAL GONE and/or playing the tunes for the masses?

The only thing I know of that's forthcoming is Orphans which is a big set of songs which didn't belong on other albums. I had the impression it might be box set sized. But like Neil Young and Prince, Tom's got a huge backlog of unreleased stuff.

The only thing I know of that's forthcoming is Orphans which is a big set of songs which didn't belong on other albums. I had the impression it might be box set sized. But like Neil Young and Prince, Tom's got a huge backlog of unreleased stuff.

This is not a bad thing, and he might be going for a "beat the bootleggers" move.

This is not a bad thing

Hell no!

he might be going for a "beat the bootleggers" move.

He had to buy the Alice tapes off eBay. They were stolen out of his car.

I have recently discovered that I can't scan a page of text with the word 'South' on it without thinking, for a moment, that it reads 'Sonic Youth'. How the name of a band I don't particularly care for has come to replace a much more heavily used word is beyond me.

Get out of my cooler, Sonic Youth!

Okay, it took me way too long to realize that "South" is actually a word I am familiar with and not some strange word that rhymes with "truth."

I think that you are confusing south and "sooth" - one kind of rhymes with truth and the other kind of means it.

No, it's just that I scanned the post and saw that there was a connection between "South" and "Sonic Youth" so I pronounced "South" as some sort of "Sonic Youth" portmanteau.

The perils of scanning the word 'south' are many and hairy.

He had to buy the Alice tapes off eBay. They were stolen out of his car.

Holy carp! I had not heard that. Don't you got straight to the unspecial hell for stealing from Tom Waits (unless you're Frito Lay, in which case you just get your ass sued for beaucoup simoleans)?