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Tom Waits gives one side of his fifth album, Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar dialogue "I Never Talk to Strangers" and his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy on "Jack & Neal." On side two, you find the extended observations of "Potter's Field" and "Burma-shave." Waits' voice is becoming ever more gravelly, but his basic musical approach remaines the same, and by this point he'd attracted a steady cult audience that enjoyed his verbal flights and boozy philosopher persona, even as critics began to complain that he was repeating himself. By the way, that's Waits' then-girlfriend, the then-unknown Rickie Lee Jones, on the cover with him. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Performer	Tom Waits
Music genre	Rock
Media format	CD
Original release date	2018
Edition	Digitally remastered edition
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	9
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Cinny's Waltz, Muriel, I Never Talk to Strangers, Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come, A Sight for Sore Eyes, Potter's Field, Burma-Shave, Barber Shop, Foreign Affair
Record label	Elektra / WEA
Composer	Tom Waits
Songwriter	Tom Waits
Track name	Cinny's Waltz, Muriel, I Never Talk to Strangers, Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come, A Sight for Sore Eyes, Potter's Field, Burma-Shave, Barber Shop, Foreign Affair
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N