Tom Waits has shared a beforehand unreleased model of “Get Behind the Mule.” The track, which initially appeared on his Grammy-winning 1999 studio album Mule Variations, is popping out to ring within the LP’s twenty fifth anniversary. Give “Get Behind the Mule (Religious)” a pay attention beneath.
“Undoubtedly a part of the unique concept was to do one thing someplace between surreal and rural,” Waits stated in an announcement. “We name it surrural. That’s what these songs are: surrural. There’s a component of one thing outdated about them, and but it’s form of disorienting…”
The drought of recent music from Waits continues onwards, as is now custom for the eccentric musician. The identical yr that he launched his most up-to-date album, 2011’s Dangerous as Me, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Since then, nonetheless, Waits has continued his lifelong appearing profession in function movies equivalent to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths.
Final yr, Waits made a uncommon public look to current Nicolas Cage with the Lifetime Achievement Award on the SFFilm Awards to honor his Rumble Fish co-star. He additionally penned a equally unusual public assertion only a week earlier than, honoring the late Pogues frontman Shane Macgowan. Waits’ subsequent challenge is a starring function in Jim Jarmusch’s upcoming film Father Mom Sister Brother.
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