In case you thought you wouldn’t be satisfied with the extra hour of Tom Waits’ banter from his upcoming live album, fret no more. Now Tom’s Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is being reinvented as a limited edition seven-LP vinyl with six new tracks. The album, which classicly highlights Waits’ bizarrely wonderful form of storytelling, will come out December 8, and also includes rare gems like Waits covering the likes of The Ramones and Fats Waller. Plainly stated, if you’re gearing up for a long winter, this collection added on top of the Glitter and Doom live album should be enough Tom Waits material to get you through. And that’s never a bad thing.

When you first read that Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom Tour was getting the live album treatment, from -Anti, your best hope was probably for one or two interludes of weird musings and stage ramblings from the man himself. But never in your (certainly not our) wildest dreams could you have fathomed a full second album of such material (as one long track aptly called “Tom Tales”). It’s such a novel idea you almost wonder if someone who edited footage together of all the shows for -Anti just did this in his spare time for kicks and then the label realized this had the potential to be seven kinds of incredible. Either that or someone at a record label actually knows what they’re doing? Doubly novel.

A pretty extensive preview of the album is available on Waits’ new website where you can download the first eight tracks in exhange for signing over an e-mail adress. Full tracklisting below.

Glitter and Doom:

CD1:

01 Lucinda / Ain’t Goin Down (Birmingham – 07/03/08)
02 Singapore (Edinburgh – 07/28/08)
03 Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa – 06/25/08)
04 Fannin Street (Knoxville – 06/29/08)
05 Dirt in the Ground (Milan – 07/19/08)
06 Such a Scream (Milan – 07/18/08)
07 Live Circus (Jacksonville – 07/01/08)
08 Goin’ Out West (Tulsa – 06/25/08)
09 Falling Down (Paris – 07/25/08)
10 The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh – 07/28/08)
11 Trampled Rose (Dublin – 08/01/08)
12 Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville – 6/29/08)
12 I’ll Shoot the Moon (Paris – 07/24/08)
13 Green Grass (Edinburgh – 07/27/08)
14 Make It Rain (Atlanta – 07/05/08)
15 Story (Columbus – 06/28/08)
16 Lucky Day (Atlanta – 07/05/08)

CD2:

01 Tom Tales

(Via: P4K)

Honestly there is little more information about this out there than the headline already gives you. But for a tour that more than likely might not have come so near you (the tour notoriously avoided most all major cities on the East and West coast) and a personality unlike any other to see or hear live, this comes as welcome news.

While there’s not a release date or a tracklist yet, there is already news of a special edition vinyl as well. And odds are if you appreciate Waits’ music, there’s a pretty decent chance you appreciate vinyl. So double-win. (Via: Paste via Rivmixx)

When talking about improving a movie that needed no improving, Tom Waits would still have made The Dark Knight a better ride. Just think of the casting possibilities. Waits did, however, linkup  with Heath Ledger for the latter’s final film titled The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Joining them on the big screen will be Colin Farrell, Jude Law, and of course, since no bizarre film would be complete without him, Johnny Depp. The three hunks jumped in in 2008 when Ledger’s death put a crimp in the film’s production. What’s more, Farrell, Law, and Depp all agreed to donate their earnings from the film to Ledger’s daughter Matilda who never got written into Ledger’s will.  Check the trailer above. (Via SPIN).

Tom Waits has served as an artistic muse for everyone from Jim Jarmusch to Scarlett Johansson, and now photographer/director Anton Corbijn will publish a book featuring over thirty years of portraits of the gravel-voiced troubadour. The 160-page hardcover entitled Waits/Corbijn, will include 75 color and dutone plates as well as lyrics from major Waits albums, and is set for release through Schirmer/Mosel this fall. In case you can’t get enough of these two after this book, keep your eyes peeled for a Tom Waits appearance as the Devil in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Corbijn’s follow-up to Control with his second full-length film, A Very Private Gentleman. (via TwentyFourBit)