Tom Waits tunes goosed with some full-blown brass ? Who knows, Waits might've even toyed with this idea himself, but Southside Johnny beat him to the punch. Waits is a genre unto himself, and to adequately convey the character-centric stories within his mix of jazz, blues, Tin Pan Alley, and arbitrary mayhem, you'd think one would have to cop to his persona. This is essentially impossible. Either you're qualified, or you ain't. Well, Southside Johnny is. With La Bamba's Big Band bringing the big brass with more menace than Mancini, Southside's raggedly soulful voice gives slightly cleaner takes of these tunes. The band even manages to recreate Waits' Dixieland cacophony on "Tango 'Til they're Sore," like a funeral march falling down an open manhole.
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