CD - Various - Where The Willow & The Dogwood Grow: Words & Music By Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan

1CD - UK Import

Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades, he has forged a singular aesthetic that defies genre and turns the marginal into myth. His work is neither fully inside nor outside the mainstream tradition but moves restlessly between them, drawing from vaudeville, blues, jazz, folk, theatre - and just about anything else that catches his ear - to craft something wholly his own.

With undeniable cultural gravity, the team of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan join luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Leonard Cohen, and Brian Wilson in Ace Records' long-running series of multi-artist compilations celebrating the great American songwriters of the modern era. Hundreds of artists from all walks of music have recorded songs from Waits and Brennan's matchless catalogue, 19 of the finest of which comprise this hand-picked selection, including many chosen by the songwriters themselves. Includes tracks by Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones, Bob Seger, Lucinda Williams, Ramones, Diana Krall, and many more.