Tom Waits - Real Gone Artist_折坂悠太 Yuta Orisaka with unprecedented amounts of care

with unprecedented amounts of care and in a much more collaborative manner than his past albums

Tenor has remained true to his ideal

preferring to record a melody straight up than sample someone else's

This is a selection of music played on the show – most of it coming from the first year of its run

Tom Waits - Real Gone Artist_折坂悠太 Yuta Orisaka with unprecedented amounts of careReal Gone from 2004 sees Waits and his long time collaborator, wife Kathleen Brennan pen and produce a melting pot of styles. 15 tracks of Funk, Jamaican Rocksteady, urban and rural Blues, African and Latin rhythms and melodies feature on this fine release. The album features some of the few political songs Waits has written, the most explicit being Day After Tomorrow, a song Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest against the Iraq War.