Mule Variations

Locations
Call Number: CD Rock Waits Mule
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Rock Waits Mule	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Rock Waits Mule	2-week checkout	Due 05-03-2024

Compact disc.
Produced by Tom Waits and Katheleen Brennan.
Program notes inserted in container.
Big in Japan -- Lowside of the road -- Hold on -- Get behind the mule -- House where nobody lives -- Cold water -- Pony -- What's he building? -- Black market baby -- Eyeball kid -- Picture in a frame -- Chocolate Jesus -- Georgia Lee -- Filipino box spring hog -- Take it with me -- Come on up to the house.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Mule Variations submitted by Caser on March 31, 2011, 3:05pm Mule Variations is one of my very favorite albums of late period Tom Waits music, for I find this one has a perfect mix of the experimental character studies of his Rain Dogs era work and the rye field blues of the earlier stuff.

The songs are pure genius in a Tin Pan Alley songwriting, small scope of the strange world we live in kind of a way. Big in Japan, the opening tune, is probably the exception, as it's a big rollicking funny tune sung with heavy vocal distortion. Whereas House Where Nobody Lives, Take It With Me, and Come on up to the House, are personal and affecting, a sincere moment perhaps not from Waits' own POV, but very honest from the perspective of the character through which the song is told.