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I came home from work yesterday, 10/24, I was greeted with a couple items that I impulsively purchased online. One of which was Tom Waits’ new album “Bad as Me”. His first album in 7 years of completely new material.

If you’re a regular listener to our Podcast, you can tell even by the opening/closing song, that we have a thing for Tom’s music. Personally, “Heart of Saturday Night” was the first album I had heard of his and it will always hold a special place in my wife’s heart and mine. I know Hoover has his favorite as well for his own reasons. I think that’s exactly what music should do, it should be strong enough that it last through the years and the moment you listen to it again it takes you right back to that place.

Fortunately, I signed up for the TomWaits.com mailing list and it informed me that you could stream the whole album days before the release. The wife and I went up to San Francisco for our anniversary and we played that album about 5 times in the 3 days we were there. It’s hard for me to really explain what this guy’s music means to me, all I can say is, if you’ve listened to Tom Waits before and you liked it, you’ll know what I mean. If you’ve listened to him and you didn’t quite like what you’ve heard, try another album. Each is unique and he’s been around for so long and influenced so many other musician’s music that you probably DO like and didn’t even realize.

Scoop up yourself a copy of this or ANY of his albums, it’s worth your time/money.

- Brad