So does he have Marc Ribot doing his guitar work on this one? I agree with everything that's been said about Tom Waits as a lyricist, but, I think that because he is so very brilliant, Marc Ribot's guitar genius gets largely overlooked. Check out "Black Market Baby" on Mule Variations, or "Goin Out West", "In the Colesseum", or "Black Wings" on Bone Machine".
The other thing I am concerned about is how this one compares to Blood Money and Alice, which I thought were comparatively weak.
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