{"product_id":"029667115827","title":"PRE-ORDER: V\/A \"Where The Willow \u0026 The Dogwood Grow: Words \u0026 Music By Tom Waits \u0026 Kathleen Brennan\" CD (Import)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around JUNE 5th, 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order for those items. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith undeniable cultural gravity, the team of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan join luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro in Ace Records' long-running series of multi-artist compilations celebrating the great American songwriters of the modern era. Hundreds of artists from all walks of music have recorded songs from Waits and Brennan's matchless catalogue, 19 of the finest of which comprise this hand-picked selection, including many chosen by the songwriters themselves. Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades, he has forged a singular aesthetic that defies genre and turns the marginal into myth. His work is neither fully inside nor outside the mainstream tradition but moves restlessly between them, drawing from vaudeville, blues, jazz, folk, theatre - and just about anything else that catches his ear - to craft something wholly his own. His influence reverberates not just through the underground and avant-garde, but across theatre, film, literature, and visual art. With his long-time creative partner and wife Kathleen Brennan, he has dismantled and reassembled the idea of song itself, crafting works that exist as both raw expression and high art. This collection honours not only the extraordinary versatility of Waits and Brennan's songwriting, but the importance of an artist who continues to haunt and inspire from the edges inward. Ace's selection is sequenced chronologically by song, opening with Bruce Springsteen's live recording of 'Jersey Girl', Waits' ode to Brennan from 1980's Heartattack And Vine, and closing with folk matriarch Joan Baez's version of Waits and Brennan's anti-war 'Day After Tomorrow' from Waits' more recent Real Gone. \"All the great things that came out of New Jersey don't hold a candle to Kathleen Brennan, at least not in Tom's eyes,\" Bob Dylan said on his Theme Time Radio Hour show. \"She rescued me,\" reflected Waits in an interview for The Guardian. \"Maybe I rescued her too, that's often how it works. Upshot is that we both got into the same leaky boat. Everybody knows she's the brains behind Pa, as Dylan might have said. I'm just the figurehead. She's the one who's steering the ship.\" In addition to \"steering the ship\", Brennan became Waits' songwriting partner. The couple's first-released joint composition, 'Hang Down Your Head' from Rain Dogs, is heard here in a raunchy rendition by country-blues heroine Lucinda Williams. Elsewhere, performers from the worlds of jazz, blues, gospel, soul and rock put their own stamps on great songs with which Waits devotees will be familiar on Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years, Big Time, Bone Machine, Mule Variations, Real Gone and Orphans. Pride of place - because it's a particular favourite of Waits and proved incredibly challenging to license - goes to the heart-wrenching recording of 'Down There By The Train' from Johnny Cash's late-life masterpiece American Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrack List:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e1 Jersey Girl ● Bruce Springsteen \u0026amp; the E Street Band\u003cbr\u003e2 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six ● Bob Seger \u0026amp; the Silver Bullet Band\u003cbr\u003e3 Gin-Soaked Boy ● Southside Johnny \u0026amp; the Asbury Jukes\u003cbr\u003e4 Jockey Full of Bourbon ● los Lobos\u003cbr\u003e5 Hang Down Your Head ● Lucinda Williams\u003cbr\u003e6 Temptation ● Diana Krall\u003cbr\u003e7 Yesterday Is Here ● Bettye Lavette\u003cbr\u003e8 Way Down in the Hole ● the Blind Boys of Alabama\u003cbr\u003e9 Strange Weather ● Marianne Faithfull\u003cbr\u003e10 I Don't Wanna Grow Up ● Ramones\u003cbr\u003e11 Down There By the Train ● Johnny Cash\u003cbr\u003e12 House Where Nobody Lives ● King Ernest\u003cbr\u003e13 Picture in a Frame ● Willie Nelson\u003cbr\u003e14 Hold on ● Madison Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e15 The Long Way Home ● Norah Jones\u003cbr\u003e16 2:19 ● John Hammond\u003cbr\u003e17 Diamond in Your Mind ● Solomon Burke\u003cbr\u003e18 Trampled Rose ● Alison Krauss \/ Robert Plant\u003cbr\u003e19 Day After Tomorrow ● Joan Baez\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt-2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt-2\"\u003estreet date 6\/5\/2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-lg-12 pt-2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45056882704584,"sku":"029667115827","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/1337\/2616\/files\/98_0eeaaf95-4458-4322-a2e9-2f677eb78f73.jpg?v=1776350424","url":"https:\/\/1234gorecords.shop\/en-ca\/products\/029667115827","provider":"1-2-3-4 Go! 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