Tom Waits, best known for splitting song styles between "Grim Reapers" and "Grand Weepers" appropriately named his summer tour Glitter and Doom. Not only that, but Waits is personally doing a PR staffer's full-time worth of work to promote the tour, taking interviews with virtually anyone, and even interviewing filming his self-interview in a mock press conference. His new tour is labeled "PEHDTSCKJMBA" (pronounced "pess-kuh-JUM-buh), which stands for "Phoenix, El Paso, Houston, Dallas, Tulsa, St. Louis, Columbus, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Mobile, Birmingham and Atlanta," his tour dates.
The grand impresario of all things weird in rock 'n' roll opens the NPR set with a greeting that sounds like it's coming from the Devil himself, and the 2 and half hour stream from Atlanta is filled with Waits at his wildest, and a crowd who can't get enough of him. No word yet on any future follow-up to his 2006 masterpiece Orphans.
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