What are you listening to right now? - Part 3

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From probably my favourite Tom Waits album



“When my wife heard that for the first time she said: “Oh gee, you must have loved her very much.” So I said: “Wait a minute. This is not a love song. This is about a guy who can’t get a drink!” It’s about a miserable old town in Australia that made the news when they shut down the only watering hole. We found an article about it in a newspaper when we were over there and hung on to it for a year. So I said: “Ah, I ‘m going to write something about that someday.” and finally got around to it. That’s a freedom bell upfront just trying to get a feel of a ghost town, tumbleweeds and that kind of thing. It’s basically a folk song” - Tom Waits
 

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