Advert Break: TOM WAITS in WORDS & MUSIC New covers album (+Uncut magazine)

 

Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow Out May 29 on Ace Records A compilation of recordings from  Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan’s matchless catalogue The album features recordings by Solomon Burke, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Bob Seger, Diana Krall, John Hammond, and more, plus extensive sleeve notes with track-by-track commentary. Few artists have remapped the terrain of popular music, and culture at large, like Tom Waits. Over the course of five decades, he has forged a singular aesthetic that defies genre and turns the marginal into myth. His work is neither fully inside nor outside the mainstream tradition but moves restlessly between them, drawing from vaudeville, blues, jazz, folk, theatre – and just about anything else that catches his ear – to craft something wholly his own. With his long-time creative partner and wife Kathleen Brennan, he has dismantled and reassembled the idea of song itself, crafting works that exist as both raw expression and high art. This collection honours not only the extraordinary versatility of Waits and Brennan’s songwriting, but the importance of an artist who continues to haunt and inspire from the edges inward. Pre-Order Now

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Hoist that rag! Amid rumours of new activity, the new issue of Uncut goes in search of the real Tom Waits, with the help of Beck, Roseanne Cash, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and more. Comes with a FREE 15-track CD curated by Kurt Vile! In shops Friday or order now:  bit.ly/UncutMay2026

Inside the mag: Brian May and Roger Taylor on the audacious Queen II… Tori Amos communes with Celtic gods… the four original PIXIES revisit their “deviant” early years… Kurt Vile takes Uncut round his favourite Philly haunts >>>

Jack White’s new art exhibition… Rick Wakeman talks Bowie, bhunas and golfing with Norman Wisdom… the making of “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire… Ziggy Marley’s favourite records… The Doors X Public Enemy >>>

Plus! Sunn O))), Jesca Hoop, Ringo Starr, Thundercat, U2, Scritti Politti, Super Furry Animals, Yoko Ono, Paul Weller, Taj Mahal, Wednesday, Billy Preston, Sturgill Simpson, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Brown Horse, Irmin Schmidt and Uncut’s Record Store Day essentials. 

In shops Friday or order now: bit.ly/UncutMay2026