Watch Tom Waits perform live for first time in five years
28 October 2013, 13:01
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
(News)
Along with the likes of Arcade Fire and more, Tom Waits performed at Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit concert over the weekend, what was the musician’s first live outing in all of five years.
Waits, clad in his signature suit and hat, ran through some tracks from his most recent LP, Bad As Me, as well as some classic cuts (“Singapore”, “Tom Traubert’s Blues” et al).
Check out the full performance below, via CoS:
The setlist for the night was as follows:
Raised Right Men
Singapore
Talking at the Same Time
Chicago
Lucky Day
Tom Traubert’s Blues
Lucinda
Last Leaf
Cemetery Polka
Come On Up to the House
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