Orphans : brawlers, bawlers & bastards
(Music CD)

Title from disc label.

Blues rock songs, jazz rock songs, and blues.

All songs Waits/Brennan except as noted below.

Compact disc.

Written and produced by Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan.

Tom Waits, guitar, keyboard, pump organ, percussion, vocals ; with Anges Amar, whistles ; Charlie Musselwhite, harmonica ; Ara Anderson, Paul "Hollywood" Litteral, trumpet ; Bob Funk, trombone ; Nic Phelps, horns ; Bebe Risenfors, clarinet ; Bart Hopkins, bamboo clarinet ; Crispin Cioe, Arno Hecht, Colin Stetson, saxophone ; Carla Kihlstedt, violin ; Darrel Devore, circular violin ; Eddie Davis, banjo ; Joe Gore, Marc Ribot, Mike Knowlton, Larry LaLonde, guitar ; Bobby Black, steel guitar ; Mark Linkous, guitar, bass, drums ; Seth Ford-Young, Larry Taylor, Matt Brubeck, Greg Cohen, bass ; Guy Klesevik, accordion ; Bent Clausen, piano ; Gary Knowlton, keyboards ; Mitchell Froom, chamberlain ; Casey Waits, drums ; Michael Blair, drums, percussion ; Brain, percussion ; Bobby Baloo, boulders, cowbells ; Tom Nunn, the bug ; Richard Waters, waterphone ; also with John Hammond, harmonica ; Nolan Smith, Chris Grady, trumpet ; Tom Yoder, trombone ; Dan Plonsey, clarinet ; Ralph Carney, saxophone ; Harry Cody, banjo ; Dave Alvin, Brett Gurewitz, Ron Hacker, Sullivan Waits, guitar ; Les Claypool, Adam Lane, Eric Perney, Mike Silverman, Matthew Sperry, Leroy Vinnegar, Trevor Horn, bass ; Dan Cantrell, accordion ; Steve Prutsman, Francis Thumm, piano ; Billy Higgins, drums ; Andrew Borger, Stephen Hodges, Gino Robair, Steve Foreman, Jeff Sloan, Ray Armando, percussion.

Goes beyond being just a basic Tom Waits retrospective by including a wide range of tracks, from cover songs to material recorded in the garage with his kids. This collection also captures his various musical styles.