Rounding out the second half(?) of the 1990s, Waits explores collaborations with old friends and some unusual covers, as well as the building of experimental musical instruments, including his own mouth. It's a weird one, no doubt about it!
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Brother Can You Spare a Dime, Brother Can You Spare A Dime Day, Tom Waits / w. Yip Harburg / Jay Gorney (1993)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime, radio broadcast, Al Jolson (1943)
Dogwood Cross, Moanin' Parade, Tom Waits / Gatmo / Bart Hopkin / Tom Nunn / Mike Knowlton / Gary Knowlton (2000)
Fever, live recording, Raven Theatre, Healdsburg CA, w. Eddie Cooley / Otis Blackwell [under pseudonym "John Davenport"] (11 August 1996)
Fever, Fever, Little Willie John (1956/1958)
Fever, single, Peggy Lee (1958)
Old Time Feeling, Friends Of Mine, Ramblin' Jack Elliot / Guy Clark / Tom Waits (1998)
That Old Time Feeling, Old No.1, Guy Clark (1975)
World Of Adventure / River Of Men, freeform singing, Fishing With John TV show, Tom Waits / John Lurie (1991/1998)
Fishing With John - Episode 2 - Tom Waits, (1991)
Highway Cafe, Pearls In The Snow - The Songs Of Kinky Friedman, w. Kinky Friedman (1998)
Highway Cafe, Sold American, Kinky Friedman (1975)
Coattails of a Dead Man, Antipop, Primus / Tom Waits (1999)
Intro, Antipop, Primus / Tom Waits (1999)
Do You Know What I Idi Amin, Extremely Cool, Chuck E. Weiss / Tom Waits (1999)
Waits and Primus recording 'On The Road', from Videoplasty, 'Home Video' by Primus (1998)
Babbachichuija, CD insert for the book 'Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones', Tom Waits (1999)
Buzz Fledderjohn, Wicked Grin, John Hammond (2001)
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