'Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits' is a unique compilation full of fresh interpretations of songs by the legendary Tom Waits. Aimee Mann, Joseph, Patty Griffin, Rosanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Corinne Bailey Rae, Angie McMahon, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more each put their own unique spin on the gravel-voiced songwriter's work.
"...to hear it all through these womens voices: for me, this is where the whole thing was delivered. I didnt just want to go to church, I wanted to go to their church. In much the way Burt Bacharach songs often seem most fully themselves in the hands of Dionne Warwick, or Dusty Springfield, or Jackie DeShannon, The Shirelles, Aretha, or Karen Carpenter. Or the way standards feel so fully standard in Ella Fitzgeralds rendering of the material. The Waits songs I was hearing through these women were breathing differently and deeply. In just the way Dylan cuts the definitive version but never stakes out the songs territory in a way that leaves no room for majestic covers, the recordings I was gathering were showing me the remarkable strength, the resonance of Waits stuff. No one took ownership of the material, it was all on loan, still belonged to Tom Waits. But what a series of loans! And thats how it is with the very, very best songs. It all brought me back to the Tom Waits Id begun to see an outline of as a young man, back to the Waits my mother brought into the family dining room. That strange and beautiful character who seemed to belong to no one. Who I now believe belongs to us all." - Warren Zanes, producer.
"Tom is a true original as a songwriter, singer and arranger. There just is no one like him. Beneath some of the layers of sound and his truly unique vocal phrasing, are some of the most beautiful and heartfelt songs I've ever heard."
Joseph - Come On Up To The House
Aimee Mann - Hold On
Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia Lee
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer - Ol’ 55
Angie McMahon - Take It With Me
Corinne Bailey Rae - Jersey Girl
Patty Griffin - Ruby’s Arms
Rosanne Cash - Time
Kat Edmonson - You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Iris Dement - House Where Nobody Lives
Courtney Marie Andrews - Downtown Train
The Wild Reeds - Tom Traubert’s Blues
