Tom Waits: Mr Henry (1980)

Here's a beautiful old rare one -- with surface noise included -- taken from that period when Waits was writing barfly short stories in song.

This outtake from the Heartattack and Vine album of 1980 only ever appeared on an Asylum compilation Bounced Checks ('81) and that record hasn't been released on CD.

This isn't on any streaming services that I can see either. 

So here is Waits from more than four decades ago, sitting at the piano and telling a story with an understated punchline.

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