Aug 272019
 
women sing waits tribute

One of the best tribute albums of the 2000s was 2008’s Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity. Now there’s a sequel of sorts, albeit one produced by a different label: Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits.

Out November 22 on Dualtone, the album features 12 artists across generations covering Tom Waits hits and deep cuts. Personally, I’m excited to hear Phoebe Bridgers tackle “Georgia Lee” and Kat Edmonson do “You Can Never Hold Back Spring” – two songs that don’t get covered often enough. But the hits are there too: “Jersey Girl” (Corinne Bailey Rae), “Ol’ 55” (Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer), “Hold On” (Aimee Mann), and of course “Downtown Train” (Courtney Marie Andrews).

You can hear the latter below, along with Patty Griffin’s cover of a slightly deeper cut, Waits’ Heartattack and Vine standout “Ruby’s Arms.” They bode well for the album, though I hope it is not all emotive Americana ballads. Who will bring a dose of Waitsian weirdness?

While you wait for the rest, check out our defense of another “woman sings Waits” tribute – Scarlett Johansson’s oft-maligned Anywhere I Lay My Head – and our cover-song tributes to Rain Dogs, “Jersey Girl,” Mule Variations, “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You” – plus 20 rare live covers performed by Tom himself.

TRACKLIST:
01 Joseph – “Come On Up To The House”
02 Aimee Mann – “Hold On”
03 Phoebe Bridgers – “Georgia Lee”
04 Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – “Ol’ 55″
05 Angie McMahon – “Take It With Me”
06 Corinne Bailey Rae – “Jersey Girl”
07 Patty Griffin – “Ruby’s Arms”
08 Rosanne Cash – “Time”
09 Kat Edmonson – “You Can Never Hold Back Spring”
10 Iris Dement – “House Where Nobody Lives”
11 Courtney Marie Andrews – “Downtown Train”
12 The Wild Reeds – “Tom Traubert’s Blues”

Top photo collage via SPIN.

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