Week 37 - Tom Waits
It was a very difficult task to pick songs from Tom Waits’s vast collection of songs. And it was wonderful to see that so many people have such an affection for him and his songs. In the end I decided to cover one of my all time favorite songs. This was the song that made me fall in love with Tom Waits and I’ve tried to sing in the past but coudn’t quite get it. So it was time to try again! It’s the intro of the song that gets me every time so we had to work on that - it’s just so perfect in a drinking whiskey in the afternoon kind of way. It also has the line “just get me to New Orleans” which is pretty much how I feel every time I think about that beautiful city. As I was recording the song I realized that this song is probably about Mardi Gras, which meant we sang about entirely wrong holiday but that’s how we roll over here in Miwa Gemini land. Enjoy.
Happy Holidays!