<<As for Tom Waits - I always wondered if TW actually wrote Foreign Affair. The lyrics
are so different from what he usually writes. >>
I would never have thought that, Ken...can you be more specific as to which lyrics
you're referring to? Or just the general tone of the album?
FA is brilliant, and very similar in my mind to Blue Valentine & Heartattack & Vine,
which came out around the same general period.
"Potter's Field" from FA is Tom Waits' 'Paprika Plains', I think...
Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come is CLASSIC Waits. NOBODY else could have written
it. Same goes for most of the songs on it, I would say.
And, also like Blue Valentine, it features Rickie Lee Jones on the cover!
Bob, always up for a TW thread!
NP: Steely Dan, "Cousin Dupree" 6/3/00
