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Artist Mon Oct 24 2011
Tom Waits and Chicago
As you may have heard, the first track on Tom Waits' new album, Bad as Me, is titled "Chicago." The song features Keith Richards (yes, that Keith Richards) and the hopeful refrain, "Maybe things will be better in Chicago."
It's not the first time Chicago has appeared in one of Waits' songs, nor is it the only connection he has to the city. The city makes an appearance in "Potter's Field" off 1977's Foreign Affairs and "$29.00" from 1978's Blue Valentine. And around that time he began working on a screenplay that may have evolved into Frank's Wild Years, a play written by Waits and his wife and writing partner Kathleen Brennan that made its debut in June of 1986 performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
And speaking of old Tom Waits, Aquarium Drunkard recently posted a bootleg of a concert he did at the old Ivanhoe Theater in 1976, broadcast on WXRT.