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Tom Waits: Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix, AZ 6/18/08

Tom Waits is indeed one of those artists, whose enigma runs parallel to his creative aura. And Waits’ stage presence – consisting of porkpie hat, vintage suit, board-stomps and colorful megaphones dappled around the stage, did little to distract from his almost literary persona.

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Tom Waits: Orphans

Waits’ Orphans brings to mind Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series 1- 3, in that both are career defining outtake albums that give fans a view of the wizard behind the curtain, awakening them to a new level of greatness within the artist.  Both collections should be experienced after listeners are more then just casual fans.

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