Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered)

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This 3xCD box set is compartmentalized into style-segregated discs and features 30 new songs alongside a smattering of outtakes, soundtrack cuts, and other rarities.

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When Tom Waits claims he doesn't know why he called this three-CD set Orphans, he's being cagey. Orphans obviously began as an outtakes collection — unreleased work tapes plus old soundtrack, tribute and benefit tracks. Only then, Waits, painfully aware that odds-and-sods projects were lame, decided to fill in some blanks with new songs, couldn't […]