Step Right Up - The Songs of Tom Waits

Various Artists / Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits
Label: Manifesto Records
Year: 1995
Category: Rock/Pop, Rock, Tributes
Orig Year: 1995
Discs: 1
Street Date: Jun 22, 2004
Studio/Live: Studio
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
ASIN: B000002NVK
Additional Info: Digipak

Track

1. Old Shoes -- Drugstore
2. Mockin' Bird -- Tindersticks
3. Better Off Without A Wife -- Pete Shelley
4. Red Shoes By The Drugstore -- The Wedding Present
5. Step Right Up -- Violent Femmes
6. Downtown -- Alex Chilton
7. Big Joe And Phantom 309 -- Archers Of Loaf
8. You Can't Unring A Bell -- These Immortal Souls
9. Pasties And A G-String -- Jeffrey Lee Pierce
10. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis -- Magnapop
11. Ol' 55 -- Dave Alvin
12. Jersey Girl -- Pale Saints
13. Martha -- Tim Buckley
14. Ruby's Arms -- Frente!
15. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You -- 10,000 Maniacs

Step Right Up was named "Tribute Album of the Year" in 1995 by Tower's Pulse! Magazine.

I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You as recorded by 10,000 Maniacs, is not available on any

other CD. It was originally released as a cassette-only b-side to "Candy Everybody Wants" in

1992.

Pasties and a G-String was Jeffrey Lee Pierce's final recording ever before his tragic and

untimely death in April, 1996.

Tim Buckley recorded Martha in mid-1973, just as Waits' first album was being released on Asylum

Records. This is the first cover of a Waits song ever, to our knowledge. In those days, Tim and

Tom played on the same record company softball team!

The front cover of Step Right Up features a rare photo of the Tropicana Motel, where Waits lived

in the early 1970s. The photo is courtesy of Art Fein.

The original recording of Mockin' Bird by Waits only appears on "The Early Years Vol. 2." It is

recorded here by Tindersticks.

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