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- Verified Buyer
Tom Waits is monster on his own, starting from Swordfishtrombones and onward, he beings to taste of other flavors and amasses depth and versatility without losing sight in himself. I got the incentive to buy the album because of the strength of "Goin Out West," only to find out that the album is a mosaic and each song is a different part of the same thing. Bone Machine sounds like a grown man who has experienced real pain and struggle wrote it and sang it, in his classical story-telling style. Compared to the "blues" of today, they pale in comparison (corny I know).