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11/04/10

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Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"Near the halfway point of Glitter and Doom Live, the third official concert recording from the ever-mercurial Tom Waits (but his first in more than 21 years), a deep, swampy blues called "Dirt in the Ground" is unleashed. Its melody is haunting but warm, its vocal performance frighteningly caustic but immensely human, and its lyrics...well, its lyrics are as simple as life and death...There is nothing quite as affirming as hearing Waits singing like the devil...Such exquisitely scattered storytelling is a major bonus."

- Lexington Herald-Leader

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"This album may make you curse Tom Waits for not touring more...From the sound of Glitter and Doom Live, Waits is as vital onstage as ever, with a band that can play sweet on the ballads and wail like crazy on the rock 'n' roll."

- Tampa Tribune

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01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"Most of the songs sound nothing like their original incarnations. Waits and his five-piece band - including woodwinds, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, reed organ, mellotron and clarinet, as well as the traditional drum, guitar, piano and bass - give new life to the arrangements. And then there's Tom's vocals. On the bellowing ballads of "Fannin Street," "I'll Shoot The Moon" and "Lucky Day," Waits' rough edge adds character and darkness to the tales of heartbreak."

- ABC News

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"Waits doesn't so much perform his material as he inhabits it, resulting in a stream-of-consciousness flow that makes his live record sound like one flawless show even though it was culled from eight concerts in America and Europe."

- Boston Herald

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"This carnival barking crooning carnivore and maestro of the swordfishtrombone avantbossatangowaltz has mastered his particular brand of theater, noise and nuance; its rich despair, its decadent yet romantic espirit, its yawning Brecht-Springsteen-Partchian display; its comic belch...On the jazz-noir "Make it Rain," the humpback swing "Singapore," the bleak and beautiful "Trampled Rose," there's an effortlessness between Waits and his tight six-piece ensemble that comes from its master's having lived within the roar for decades. He's finally tamed the beast."

- Blurt Online

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"My first impression of Tom Waits's concert in Atlanta last year was that it could never be captured on disc. Visceral and driving, it was such a feast for the ears and eyes, starting with Waits singing "Lucinda" as he stomped on a box covered in white powder that swirled around him as if he were an apparition straight out of the junkyard. It's nice to be proved wrong by Glitter and Doom Live...Considering the sweep of Waits's sound over the years, it's astonishing how well his band keeps pace with him...if this is as close as you get to hearing Waits live, it's an illuminating snapshot of an artist whose concerts are increasingly rare and compelling."

- Boston Globe

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"Tom Waits' live Glitter is pure bliss."

- Knoxville News-Sentinel

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"The essential contradiction of late-career Waits: He is both an incorrigible dreamer and an inveterate realist...a particularly lively album that is also a persuasive retrospective of Waits' last 20 years."

- Pitchfork

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"This superb collection of live tracks is the work of a gyroscope-askew genius piloting his like-minded band into an uncontrolled spiral to the ocean. The stomping, clanging rhythms are a circus from hell. It sounds like some weird ceremony that you've stumbled on in the dark woods, and aren't supposed to see."

- Democrat And Chronicle (Rochester, NY)

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01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"Tom Waits concerts are real events: phantasmic orgies of twisted, postmodern vaudeville and rag-and-bone blues...the best performances are of tunes that most embrace Waits' cacophonous side: the barbed-wire rock 'n' roll of "Such a Screm" and "Metropolitan Glide," the bombastic blues of "Make it Rain."

- Creative Loafing

DATE

01/15/10

Critics' Quotes, Glitter and Doom Live

"On this darkly enchanting concert album, all that glitters isn't doom."

- Lexington Herald-Leader

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01/15/10