Tom Waits
Tales From The Riverside


   1. Downtown Train     NME Version, from the EP "NME's Big Four", 1986    03:53
   2. Brother Can You Spare a Dime?     From the compilation "Brother can you Spare a Dime?", The Hamburg Foundation, 1993    03:41
   3. (Meet Me In) Paradise Alley     From the Original Soundtrack to "Paradise Alley", 1978    04:27
   4. Annie's Back in Town      From the Original Soundtrack to "Paradise Alley", 1978     03:28
   5. The World Keeps Turning  From the Original Soundtrack to "Pollock", 2001 04:12
   6. Bend Down the Branches     From the Movie "Bunny", 1998     01:01
   7. I Know I've Been Changed     From the TV-Documentary "Freedom Highway", 1999    02:27
   8. I Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More     From the TV-Documentary "Freedom Highway", 1999     02:23
   9. Rains on Me     From the compilation "Free the West Memphis 3", 2000     03:19
 10. Fish in the Jailhouse     Hummingbird Theater; Toronto, ON; Aug. 23, 1999     04:18
 11. 2:19     Paramount Theater; Oakland, CA; Jun. 10, 1999     04:35
 12. Gun Street Girl     5th Avenue Theater; Seattle, WA; Oct. 18, 1999    06:23
 13. Down There By The Train     Raven Theater; Healdsburg, CA; Aug. 11, 1996     04:02
 14. Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet     From the Radio Show "Studio C", KBCO FM, Oct. 13, 1999     02:16
 15. Buzz Fledderjon     From the CD Single "Hold On", 1999     04:12
 16. Big Face Money     From the CD Single "Hold On", 1999     00:38
 17. I'll Tell You Why That Is     From Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks "Beatin' the Heat", 2000     05:15    
 18. I Know I've Been Changed     From John Hammond's "Wicked Grin", 2001     02:18
 19. But He's Not Wilhelm     Performed by the cast of Schauspiel Bonn, Germany, 1995     02:44    
 20. In The Morning     Performed by the cast of Theater Ulm, Germany, 1999     04:08    
 21. The Part You Throw Away     From Ute Lemper's "Punishing Kiss", 2000     04:38    
 22. Fannin Street     From John Hammond's "Wicked Grin", 2001     04:45

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Notes:

 A compilation of various tracks from various sources. Works as a nice addendum to the 5 disc Tales from the Underground set. The set was put together by the fine folks at www.rhinedogs.de. It's a great site with trader links, artwork scans, and assorted Waits bootleg information. The following track listing is taken right from the original artwork scans available at that site. Please note that some of this material is considered "pirated", and that you should support the artists to from whom it has been officially released.....this should be used for "sampling purposes only" ;)
-Stephen Pickett, www.salvaj.com/steve/bootlegs

Notes from the fine folks at www.rhinedogs.de:
As we all know, the Tales From The Underground bootleg series is a great thing, for it features a huge collection of rare Tom Waits-songs that can't be found on his official albums. Nevertheless, the folks who produced those bootlegs made some mistakes and forgot some great recordings. And there were a lot of new songs released after Tales From The Underground Volume 5 came out. Hence we decided not to wait for Volume 6, but to produce our own compilation. It's entitled Tales From the Riverside. The first four tracks are improvements of the Tales From The Underground bootlegs. Volume 1 claims to feature an "alternate master" of Downtown Train, but in fact it's the same version as on Rain Dogs. So here you'll get the real "alternate take", it's called Downtown Train (NME version) and was recorded from a promo EP that came with the New Musical Express on the 1st of February 1986. The following three tracks are already to be found on Tales From the Underground Volumes 3 and 4, but we weren't satisfied with the sound quality of these tracks, which sound as if they were recorded from an old tape. We managed to get our hands on the original sources of these songs (that means the promo CD "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" Day from 1993 and the original soundtrack Paradise Alley from 1978), so that you'll get the crystal clear original recordings of these songs with our compilation. The World Keeps Turning is Tom's brandnew contribution to the soundtrack "Pollock", which was released february 2001. The song Bend Down The Branches is taken from the short movie "Bunny", 1998. Of course there's no soundtrack album available and we had to record this track from video - and unfortunately the result is of very poor sound quality. The following two tracks, the traditional gospel I Know I've Been Chanced and Leadbelly's I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More, were taken from the TV documentary "Freedom Highway", 1999. These are two really great solo performances by Tom, who plays Banjo, kicks the tambourin and shouts out the lyrics as if his life depends on it - but you can see by yourself, for these tracks are to be found on the video CD too. Rains On Me is taken from the benefit album "Free The West Memphis 3", 2000. It's an alternate take of Tom's duet with Chuck E. Weiss It Rains On me from Weiss' album "Extremely Cool", 1999. Fish In The Jailhouse and 2:19 seem to be Mule Variations outtakes. There aren't any studio recordings of these songs available so far (at least by Tom), but Tom played these songs every now and then on the Get Behind The Mule Tour 1999, and we tried to pick out two really good sounding audience recordings. On the same tour Tom performed a new and absolutely fantastic version of Gun Street Girl in which he used Leadbelly's I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More for the chorus. Down There By The Train was written for Johnny Cash, who recorded this song for his album "American Recordings" 1994. As fas as we know there's only one rendition by Tom himself, from the Storming Heaven Benefit, Healdsburg, August 11, 1996. It seems to be impossible to find a really good recording of this historic moment, so that the sound quality of this track is rather poor. But - what a performance! The small excerpt from Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet was performed by Tom during the radio show "Studio C", KBCO FM, October 13, 1999. Buzz Fledderjon and Big Face Money came as bonus tracks with the CD single "Hold On" 1999. The following two tracks are duets Tom recorded with other artists during the last year. I'll Tell You Why That Is is taken from Dan Hick's album "Beatin' The Heat", 2000, and I Know I've Been Changed was originally released on John Hammond's album "Wicked Grin", 2001. The last four tracks are songs that were never recorded by Tom himself (as far as we know). But He's Not Wilhelm and In The Morning are two beautiful songs from the musical "The Black Rider". You'll find the full cast versions from two German productions on our compilation. The Part You Throw Away is taken from Ute Lemper's album "Punishing Kiss", 2000. Fannin Street was written by Tom and Kathleen for John Hammond and was originally released on Hammond's album "Wicked Grin", 2001.