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More than anything, it's a last chance (apart from concert film Big Time) to hear this incarnation of Waits the rain dog before he shifted gears to the stripped-down blues rock of 1992's Bone Machine.
The percussion-heavy, bluesy Bone Machine indeed foreshadows future albums like Mule Variations, but remains singular in its tenacious devotion to scabrous, almost uniformly ugly sounds.
Bone Machine is the realest of the real when it comes to stripped-down blues...