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December giveaway
The release of Glitter & Doom and the upcoming release of the Orphans box seems like the perfect moment for a new giveaway. To enter just send me a an e-mail with December giveaway in the subject field and let me know which Tom Waits product from the Amazon catalogue you would like (and why). The giveaway closes on Christmas eve.

Two Waits/Kronos tracks on iTunes
The Bridge School Collection, Volume 4 is available now on iTunes. The album contains two tracks with the Kronos Quartet and Tom Waits: What Keeps Mankind Alive and The Part You Throw Away, both recorded on October 7th, 2007. Proceeds from the album's sales go directly to the Bridge School.

Glitter & Doom Live reviews
Some reviews of the Glitter & Doom Live record. Feel free to add your own in the comments.English:Paste Magazine: Music’s cookie-monster contrarian gets his Peter Pan on BBC: That he is a copper-bottomed, titanium-plated genius is undeniableThe Guardian / The Observer Times OnlineBoston GlobePitchforkThe PhoenixNews.ScotsmanCreative LoafingSnob's MusicDutch:De Volkskrant: Een lompe Tom Waits

G&D streaming
The bad news is the Glitter & Doom Live album was streamed on KCRW's Eclectic yesterday - so I missed that one. The good news is, it will be available on-demand through December 22.

Waits records Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing
Some more details about the song Tom Waits has recorded with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band have surfaced. According to Earth Times, the song is Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing, the earliest known recorded Mardi Gras song.Máquina de Huesos, the Spanish waits blog, quotes John Sinclair as saying this song was released in 1955 as a 78rpm single by Danny Barker and his Creole Cats.Proceeds from the