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On “What’s He Building in There?” from his 1999 epic Mule Variations, Tom Waits proffered a nervous narrator beleaguered with the goings-on inside a neighbor’s house. Those who have followed Waits’s career—and particularly endured the space between his new recordings—can likely relate, wondering just when that blues-sodden boho poet, who stands as one of America’s most enduring, consistently challenging, and truly unique musical voices, is going to unleash new material from his mysterious workshop. “We have a right to know,” as that narrator proclaims at the end of “What’s He Building.”
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