Come On Up To The House Women Sing Waits

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Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits, compiled in honor of Tom Waits 70th birthday, is a unique amalgamation of fresh interpretations of songs by the legendary songwriter. Aimee Mann, Joseph, Patty Griffin, Rosanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Corinne Bailey Rae, Angie McMahon, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more each put their own unique spin on the gravel-voiced troubadours work.

The Waits songs I was hearing through these women were breathing differently and deeply. In just the way Dylan cuts the definitive version but never stakes out the songs territory in a way that leaves no room for majestic covers, the recordings I was gathering were showing me the remarkable strength, the resonance of Waits stuff. No one took ownership of the material, it was all on loan, still belonged to Tom Waits. But what a series of loans! And thats how it is with the very, very best songs. It all brought me back to the Tom Waits Id begun to see an outline of as a young man, back to the Waits my mother brought into the family dining room. That strange and beautiful character who seemed to belong to no one. Who I now believe belongs to us all.- Warren Zanes, producer