For our seven ‘True Orphans’ episodes (linked below), we researched and located many recordings of unreleased / rare / unusual Tom Waits tracks.
Below is a spreadsheet of all of those tracks, along with links to YouTube to enable you to listen to them. Entries highlighted in orange are tracks collected on Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (2006), as well as others we discussed on previous episodes. You can hear our discussions of these on:
Enjoy!
| Year | Song | Origin / Release | Song Type | Writer | Links (UK) | Links (US) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 1 - 1973-1977 | |||||||
| 1973 | Getting Drunk On A Bottle / I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning | Snap Sessions, KPFK FM, Santa Monica CA, 19 Nov 1973 | Live / Cover | Dave Blue (Heard from Pam Oscar) | Link | Playlist Link | |
| 1973 | Friday's Blues | Snap Sessions, KPFK FM, Santa Monica CA, 19 Nov 1973 | Live / Cover | Ray Bierl | Link | ||
| 1974 | The Goodnight Loving Trail | Ebbets Field, Denver CO, 8 Oct 1974 (on Dime Store Novels vol. 1) | Live / Cover | Utah Phillips | Link | ||
| 1974 | Spanish is the Loving Tongue | Folk Arts Rare Records, San Diego CA, 11 January 1974 | Live / Cover | Lyrics Charles Badger Clark, music Bill Simon | Link | ||
| 1974 | Blue Skies (single) | Heart of Saturday Night sessions | Single release | Waits | Link | At the end of Heart Of Saturday Night, ep. 24 | |
| 1975 | Link (North America access) | Home Plate - Bonnie Raitt | Guest vocal | Bonnie Raitt | Link | ||
| 1975 | Apartment For Rent | Main Point, Bryn Mawr PA, June/July 1975 (on A Nickle's Worth Of Dreams) | Live / Cover | Waits | Link | ||
| 1975 | Tom Gets Hustled at 9 Ball | KWFM from Lee Furr's Studios in Tucson AZ, 1975 (on Easy Street - Live and Remastered) | Live / Cover | Waits | Link | ||
| 1975 | Saturday Night Fish Fry | Santa Barbara CA, 13 Feburary 1975 | Live / Cover | Louis Jordan / Ellis Walsh | Link | ||
| 1976 | Standing On The Corner | Agora Ballroom, Cleveland OH, 25 August 1976 | Live / Cover | Frank Loesser | Link | ||
| 1976 | What Else Is New? | Small Change sessions, July 1976 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1976 | Stray Dog Help Yourself | Small Change sessions, July 1976 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1976 | Cupid | Westchester NY, 2 October 1976 | Live / Cover | Sam Cooke | Link | ||
| 1977 | Playin' Hooky | Foreign Affairs sessions, July - August 1977 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1977 | Scarecrow | Foreign Affairs sessions, July - August 1977 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1977 | A Nickel's Worth Of Dreams | Foreign Affairs sessions, July - August 1977 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1977 | Mr. Henry/ Tie Undone | Foreign Affairs sessions. July - August 1977 (on Asylum Years vinyl first pressing & Bounced Checks) | Limited release | Waits | Link | ||
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 2 - 1977-1979 | |||||||
| 1977 | Martin Goes And Does Where It's At | I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved - Martin Mull | Guest vocal | Martin Mull | Link | ||
| 1977 | Just Another Dime Store Novel | Foreign Affairs sessions? No official release. Filmways/ Heider Recording, Hollywood CA, July / August 1977 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | Annie's Back in Town | Paradise Alley (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | At the end of Blue Valentine, ep.66 | |
| 1978 | (Meet Me In) Paradise Alley | Paradise Alley (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | With A Suitcase (Street Band Version) | Paradise Alley sessions, 7 September 1978 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | With A Suitcase (Rhythm Section Version) | Paradise Alley sessions, 7 September 1978 | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | Tijuana | Jack Tempchin - Jack Tempchin | Written by | Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | Summertime | The Royal Horse, Osaka Japan, March 1978 | Live / Cover | George Gershwin | Link | ||
| 1977 | Summertime / Putnam County | Park Motor Inn, Madison WI, October 31, 1977 | Live / Cover | George Gershwin / Tom Waits | Link | ||
| 1978 | Ain't Gonna Rain | Zilker Park, Austin TX, 5 Dec 1978 or Warner Theatre, Washington DC 21 Nov 1978 | Live / Cover | Traditional | Link | ||
| 1978 | Ain't Gonna Rain / I Wish I Was In New Orleans | Austin City Limits, TX | Live / Cover | Traditional / Waits | Link | ||
| 1979 | Waitin for Waits | Hollywood Madness - Richie Cole | Guest vocal | Richie Cole / Eddie Jefferson | Link | ||
| 1979 | Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You? | Uptown Theatre, Kansas City MO, 8 October 1979 | Live / Cover | Andy Razaf / Don Redman | Link | ||
| 1979 | Whose Sports Coat Is That? | Uptown Theatre, Kansas City MO, 8 October 1979 | Live | Waits | Link | ||
| 1979 | Trash Day | Beacon Theatre, New York NY, 5 November 1979 | Live | Waits | Link | ||
| 1979 | Since I Fell For You | Capitol Theatre, Sydney Australia, 2 May 1979 | Live / Cover | Buddy Johnson | Link | ||
| 1979 | The Hokey Pokey | Capitol Theatre, Sydney Australia, 2 May 1979 | Live / Cover | Traditional | Link | ||
| 1979 | I Feel Good | Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA, 7 October 1979 | Live / Cover | James Brown | Link | ||
| 1979? | When The Saints Go Marching In | Unknown - sometime between 1978 and 1985 | Live / Cover | Traditional | Link | ||
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 3 - 1980-1989 | |||||||
| 1981 | Purple Avenue | Montreal Canada, 1981 | Live | Waits | Link | Empty Pockets version discussed on One From The Heart, ep. 901 | |
| 1982 | Bronx Lullaby/ Smuggler's Waltz | Poetry In Motion (TV documentary) | Filmed performance | Waits | Link | ||
| 1983 | Rainbow Sleeves | Girl At Her Volcano - Rickie Lee Jones | Written by | Waits | Link | At the end of Blue Valentine, ep. 67 | |
| 1984 | Take Care of All Of My Children | Streetwise (film) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 378 | |
| 1984 / 1986 | Rat's Theme / If I Have To Go | Streetwise (film) / Frank's Wild Years (theatre) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 369 | |
| 1985 | What Keeps Mankind Alive? | Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill - Various Artists | Cover | Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht | Link | On Orphans, ep. 334 | |
| 1986 | It's Just The Way We Are Boys | Franks Wild Years (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed this at the end of Blood Money, ep. 315 | |
| 1986 | In A Suit Of Your Dreams | Franks Wild Years (theatre) | Original | Waits | Not found | Innocent When You Dream versions discussed on Franks Wild Years and Big Time, eps. 130, 143 and 170 | |
| 1986? | Carnivalins | Franks Wild Years sessions? On Franks Wild Demos album | Original | Waits | Link | ||
| 1986? | Vegas Theme | Franks Wild Years sessions? On Franks Wild Demos album | Original | Waits | Link | ||
| 1986 | Downtown Train (NME release) | Rain Dogs sessions - released on NME's Big 4 7" | Original | Waits | Link | ||
| 1986 | Harlem Shuffle | Dirty Work - The Rolling Stones | Guest vocal | The Rolling Stones | Link | ||
| 1986 | I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know | With Elvis Costello and Lou Reed, Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 4 October 1986 | Live / Cover | Davis Sisters | Link | ||
| 1987 | Papa's Got A Brand New Bag | Massey Hall, Toronto Canada, 7 October 1987 | Live / Cover | James Brown | Link | ||
| 1987 | Mack The Knife | Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin Germany, 8 December 1987 | Live / Cover | Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill | Link | ||
| 1987 | The Pontiac | Smack My Crack - Various Artists | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 375 | |
| 1987 | Poor Little Lamb | Ironweed (film) | Co-written | William Kennedy / Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 370 | |
| 1987 | The Big Rock Candy Mountain | Ironweed (film) | Filmed performance / Cover | Traditional | Link | Mentioned it a little in Ironweed ep. F06 | |
| 1987 | Once More Before I Go | Candy Mountain (film) | Filmed performance | Waits? | Link | ||
| 1988 | Date to Church | I'll Be You single - The Replacements | Co-written | Waits / The Replacements (co-written as Reverend Backwash) | Link | ||
| 1988 | Lowdown Monkey Blues | Dead Man's Pop - The Replacements (released 2019) | Co-written | Waits / The Replacements | Link | ||
| 1988 | If Only You Were Lonely | Dead Man's Pop - The Replacements (released 2019) | Guest vocal | The Replacements | Link | ||
| 1988 | I Can Help | Dead Man's Pop - The Replacements (released 2019) | Guest vocal / Cover | Billy Swan | Link | ||
| 1988 | We Know The Night | Dead Man's Pop - The Replacements (released 2019) | Guest vocal | The Replacements | Link | ||
| 1988 | Take It As It Comes | Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 31 December 1988 | Live / Cover | The Doors | Link | ||
| 1988 | Pennies from Heaven | Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 31 December 1988 | Live / Cover | Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke | Link | ||
| 1988 | Dirty Old Town | Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 31 December 1988 | Live / Cover | Ewan MacColl | Link | ||
| 1988 | Hound Dog | Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 31 December 1988 | Live / Cover | Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller | Link | ||
| 1988 | Roy Orbison: A Black And White Night | Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles CA, 30 Sep 1988 | Live / Guest vocals | Roy Orbison | Link | Discussed a little on ep. 420 | |
| 1988 | Heigh Ho (The Dwarfs Marching Song) | Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films - Various Artists | Cover | Frank Churchill / Larry Morey | Link | On Orphans, ep. 340 | |
| 1989 | Silent Night | SOS United - SOS Children's Villages | Cover | Traditional | Link | At the end of Orphans, ep. 394 | |
| 1989 | Sea of Love | Sea of Love (film) | Soundtrack / Cover | Phil Phillips | Link | On Orphans, ep. 371 | |
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 4 - 1990-1992 | |||||||
| 1990 | Serrano | Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour (book) | Original | Waits | Link | ||
| 1990 | I Left My Heart in San Francisco | Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco CA, 31 December 1990 | Live / Cover | George Corey / Douglass Cross | Link | ||
| 1990 | Auld Lang Syne | Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco CA, 31 December 1990 / 1 January 1991 | Live / Cover | Traditional | Link | ||
| 1990 | It's All Right with Me | Red Hot + Blue - ACT UP | Cover | Cole Porter | Link | ||
| 1990 | But He's Not Wilhelm | The Black Rider (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of The Black Rider, ep. 224-227 | |
| 1990 | Chase The Clouds Away | The Black Rider (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of The Black Rider, ep. 224-227 | |
| 1990 | News From The Duke | The Black Rider (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of The Black Rider, ep. 224-227 | |
| 1990 | In The Morning | The Black Rider (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of The Black Rider, ep. 224-227 | |
| 1991 | Thousand Bing Bangs | Devout Catalyst - Ken Nordine | Co-written | Waits | Link | Talked about it when we covered "Circus" on Real Gone (ep. 324) and again on Orphans, because the Waits half of this forms the track "First Kiss" (ep. 355). | |
| 1991 | The Movie | Devout Catalyst - Ken Nordine | Co-written | Waits | Link | ||
| 1991 | Little Man | Mississippi Lad - Teddy Edwards | Guest vocal | Teddy Edwards | Link | On Orphans, ep. 363 | |
| 1991 | I'm Not Your Fool Anymore | Mississippi Lad - Teddy Edwards | Guest vocal | Teddy Edwards | Link | ||
| 1991 | Tommy the Cat | Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus | Guest vocal | Primus | Link | Interval track for Earth Died Screaming, ep. 188 | |
| 1992 | Falling Down The Lane | Alice Demos (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of Alice, ep. 301 | |
| 1992 | One, Two And Through | Alice Demos (theatre) | Unreleased | Lewis Carroll lyrics, music by Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of Alice, ep. 301 | |
| 1992 | What Became Of Old Father Craft | Alice Demos (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of Alice, ep. 301 | |
| 1992 | Untitled instrumental tracks | Alice Demos (theatre) | Unreleased | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of Alice, ep. 301 | |
| 1992 | I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby | American Heart (film) | Soundtrack / Cover | Fats Waller | Link | On Orphans bonus tracks, ep. 380 | |
| 1992 | Never Let Go Of Your Hand | American Heart (film) | Soundtrack / Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans bonus tracks, ep. 357 | |
| 1992 | Adios Lounge | Beautiful Mess - Thelonius Monster | Guest vocal | Bob Kuhn / George Kuhn | Link | ||
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 5 - 1992-1999 | |||||||
| 1992 | Brother Can You Spare a Dime? | Brother Can You Spare me A Dime? - Various Artists | Cover | Yip Harburg / Jay Gorney | Link | ||
| 1992 | No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby | Got Love If You Want It - John Hammond | Written by | Waits | Link | On Orphans bonus tracks, ep. 392 | |
| 1992 | Mexican Song | Bone Machine sessions | Unreleased | Waits | Not found | ||
| 1992 | Shall We Die Tonight | Bone Machine sessions | Unreleased | Waits | Not found | ||
| 1992 | Good Dogwood | Bone Machine sessions | Unreleased | Waits | Link | ||
| 1993 | Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet | Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet - Tramp and Tom Waits With Full Orchestra and Coda: Tom Waits With High Strings | Guest vocal | Gavin Bryars / Unnamed Tramp | Link | Interval track for Rain Dogs, ep. 116 | |
| 1994 | Down There By The Train | American Recordings - Johnny Cash | Written by | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 381 | |
| 1996 | Fall of Troy | Dead Man Walking (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 363 | |
| 1996 | Walk Away | Dead Man Walking (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 375 | |
| 1996 | Fever | Raven Theatre, Healdsburg CA, 11 August 1996 | Live / Cover | Eddie Cooley / Otis Blackwell (under pseudonym "John Davenport") | Link | ||
| 1997 | Little Drop of Poison | The End of Violence (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 345 (Shrek version from 2003, mentioned this one too) | |
| 1997 | Home I’ll Never Be | Wadsworth Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 21 June 1997 | Live / Cover | Jack Kerouac / Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 367 | |
| 1998 | Louise (Tell It To Me) | Friends Of Mine - Ramblin' Jack Elliot | Written by | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 354 | |
| 1998 | Old Time Feeling | Friends Of Mine - Ramblin' Jack Elliot | Cover / Guest vocal | Waits | Link | ||
| 1998 | River of Men and World of Adventure | Fishing With John (TV) | Filmed performance / Co-written | Waits / John Lurie | Link | ||
| 1998 | Highway Cafe | Pearls In The Snow - The Songs Of Kinky Friedman | Cover | Kinky Friedman | Link | ||
| 1999 | Coattails of a Deadman | Antipop - Primus | Co-written | Waits | Link | ||
| 1999 | Do You Know What I Idi Amin | Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss | Co-written | Waits / Chuck E. Weiss (co-produced album) | Link | ||
| 1999 | It Rains on Me, and co-produced album | Extremely Cool - Chuck E. Weiss | Co-written | Waits / Chuck E. Weiss (co-produced album) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 377 ("Free The West Memphis 3 version, we mention this version a bit too) | |
| 1999 | Rains on Me | Free the West Memphis 3 - Various Artists | Co-written | Waits / Chuck E. Weiss (solo Waits recording) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 377 | |
| 1999 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac Reads on the Road - Various Artists | Cover | Jack Kerouac, adaptation by Waits with Primus | Link | On Orphans, ep. 385 | |
| 1999 | Books of Moses | More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album - Various Artists | Cover | Skip Spence | Link | On Orphans, ep. 346 | |
| 1999 | Babbachichuija | Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones (book) | CD insert | Original? | Link | ||
| 1999 | Putting on the Dog | Liberty Heights (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 356 | |
| 1999 | It's Over | Liberty Heights (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 366 (a different version), and also a few versions at the end of Blood Money, ep. 315 | |
| 1999 | Buzz Fledderjohn | Mule Variations (Australian, New Zealand & Japanese release) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 374 | |
| 1999 | Big Face Money | Mule Variations (Australian, New Zealand & Japanese release) | Original | Waits | Link | On Mule Variations, ep. 271 | |
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 6 - 2000-2009 | |||||||
| 2000 | It's Just the Way We Are | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | Discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | It's Over | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 366, also discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | Shiny Things | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 348, also discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | Children's Story | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 337, also discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | Redrum | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 337, also discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | Diamond In Your Mind | Woyzeck (play) | Original | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 361, also discussed at the end of Woyzeck, ep. 315 | |
| 2000 | Moanin' Parade | Improvised music album | Co-written | Waits & Gatmo players | Link | On Gatmo Sessions, ep. 271-274 | |
| 2000 | Swarm Warnings | Improvised music album | Co-written | Waits & Gatmo players | Link | On Gatmo Sessions, ep. 275-278 | |
| 2000 | Helium Reprise | Helium - Tin Hat Trio | Co-written / Guest Vocal | Waits / Tin Hat Trio | Link | ||
| 2000 | I'll Tell You Why That Is | Beatin' the Heat - Dan Hicks | Guest vocal | Dan Hicks | Link | ||
| 2001 | The World Keeps Turning | Pollock (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 351 | |
| 2001 | Jayne's Blue Wish | Big Bad Love (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 387 | |
| 2001 | Long Way Home | Big Bad Love (film) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 339 | |
| 2001 | Dog Door | It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse | Co-written | Waits / Mark Linkous | Link | On Orphans, ep. 358 | |
| 2001 | I Know I've Been Changed | Wicked Grin - John Hammond | Guest vocals | Traditional (Waits also produced album) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 353 (different version from the Hammond recording) | |
| 2001 | Buzz Fledderjohn | Wicked Grin - John Hammond | Written by | Waits (also produced album) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 374 (different version from the original Hammond recording) - also was on the Mule Variations special edition in Japan and elsewhere, along with Big Face Money (ep. 271) | |
| 2001 | Fannin' Street, and produced album | Wicked Grin - John Hammond | Written by | Waits (also produced album) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 360 (different version from the original Hammond recording) | |
| 2001 | 2:19 | Wicked Grin - John Hammond | Written by | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 338 | |
| 2001 | Lord I've Been Changed | Freedom Highway (documentary) | Filmed performance | Traditional | Link | On Orphans, ep. 353 | |
| 2001 | Ain't Going Down To The Well | Freedom Highway (documentary) | Filmed performance | Leadbelly | Link | On Orphans, ep. 350 | |
| 2001 | Mahfouz | Witness - Dave Douglas | Guest vocal | Dave Douglas / Naguib Mahfouz | Link | ||
| 2002 | Bend Down the Branches | For the Kids - Various Artists | Written by | Waits (previously used in 1998 short film 'Bunny') | Link | On Orphans, ep. 333 | |
| 2002 | What's He Building in There | Hullabaloo Soundtrack - Muse | Sampled track | Waits | Link | An extract from the original song from Mule Variations, ep. 262 | |
| 2002 | Diamond in Your Mind | Don't Give Up On Me - Solomon Burke | Written by | Waits | Link | First performed by Burke in 2002, then on Orphans bonus tracks (ep. 383), and also performed in the Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation with the Kronos Quartet in 2007, which is a banger. | |
| 2003 | The Return of Jackie and Judy | We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones - Various Artists | Cover | Joey Ramone / Johnny Ramone / Dee Dee Ramone | Link | On Orphans, ep. 365 | |
| 2003 | Bottom Of The World | Long Gone (documentary) | Soundtrack | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 344 | |
| 2003 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Go Tell It on the Mountain - The Blind Boys of Alabama | Guest vocal | Traditional | Link | ||
| 2004 | King Kong | The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered - Various Artists | Cover | Daniel Johnston | Link | Waits version on Orphans, ep. 382, also discussed the original in a fair bit of detail. | |
| 2004 | Kitate | The Ride - Los Lobos | Co-written | David Hidalgo / Louie Perez / Waits | Link | ||
| 2005 | Going Fetal | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - The Eels | Guest vocal | Mark Oliver Everett | Link | ||
| 2005 | You Can Never Hold Back Spring | La Tigre e La Neve / The Tiger and The Snow (film) | Soundtrack / Filmed performance | Waits | Link | On Orphans, ep. 336 | |
| 2006 | Rambling Man | House Of Blues, Cleveland OH, 13 August 2006 | Live / Cover | Hank Williams | Link | ||
| 2006 | Spoonful | House Of Blues, Cleveland OH, 13 August 2006 | Live / Cover | Howlin' Wolf | Link | ||
| 2006 | Orphans release | Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards | Original | Waits / Brennan | Link | Discussed in eps. 332-394 | |
| 2006 | Morning Hollow | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain - Sparklehorse | Pianist | Mark Linkous | Link | ||
| 2007 | Pray | Traineater - The Book of Knots | Co-written | Carla Kihlstedt / Joel Hamilton / Matthias Bossi / Tony Maimone / Brennan / Waits (also guest vocals by Kathleen Brennan) | Link | On Orphans, ep. 389 | |
| 2007 | Sideshow Seance | Improvised music album | Co-written | Waits & Gatmo players | Link | On Gatmo Sessions, ep. 279-281 | |
| 2008 | Waitress | When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold - Atmosphere | Guest vocal (Human Beatbox) | Atmosphere | Link | ||
| 2009 | Spacious Thoughts | The Spirit of Apollo - N.A.S.A | Co-written / Pianist | Kool Keith / Sam Spiegel / Ze Gonzales / Waits | Link | ||
| TRUE ORPHANS EPISODE 7 - 2010-2023 | |||||||
| 2010 | Tootie Ma Was a Big Fine Thing | Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program - Preservation Hall Jazz Band | Guest vocal / Cover | Danny Barker / Howard Mandolf | Link | ||
| 2010 | Corrine Died on The Battlefield | Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program - Preservation Hall Jazz Band | Guest vocal / Cover | Unknown | Link | ||
| 2010 | Fortune Has Its Cookies To Give Out | Herbst Theater, San Francisco CA, 2 October 2010 | Live / Cover | Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Waits | Link | ||
| 2011 | Ghost to a Ghost | Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town - Hank Williams III | Guest vocal | Hank Williams III | Link | ||
| 2011 | Fadin' Moon | Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town - Hank Williams III | Guest vocal | Hank Williams III | Link | ||
| 2012 | Thirsty? | Improvised music album | Co-written | Waits & Gatmo players | Link | On Gatmo Sessions, ep. 282-285 | |
| 2013 | Shenandoah | Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys - Various Artists | Guest vocal | Traditional (with Keith Richards) | Link | ||
| 2013 | Little Red Rooster | Oracle Arena, Oakland CA, 5 May 2013 | Live recording / Cover / Guest vocal | The Rolling Stones | Good audio Link Full Link |
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| 2015 | Take One Last Look | The Late Show with David Letterman, New York NY, 14 May 2015 | Filmed performance | Waits / Brennan | Link | ||
| 2016 | The Soul of a Man | God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson - Various Artists | Cover | Blind Willie Johnson / Waits / Brennan | Link | ||
| 2016 | John the Revelator | God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson - Various Artists | Cover | Blind Willie Johnson / Waits / Brennan | Link | ||
| 2017 | Respect Yourself | Lagunitas Amphitheatre, Petaluma CA, 11 September 2017 | Live recording / Cover / Guest vocal | Luther Ingram / Mack Rice (with Mavis Staples) | Link | Mentioned as part of the interval track for Chicago, ep. 414 | |
| 2018 | Mother Machree | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (film) | Filmed performance | Rida Johnson Young / Chauncey Olcott / Ernest Ball | Link | Discussed on Ballad of Buster Scruggs, ep. F22 | |
| 2018 | Bella Ciao | Songs Of Resistance 1942 - 2018 - Marc Ribot | Co-written | Marc Ribot / Waits/ Brennan | Link | Interval track for Day After Tomorrow, ep. 330 | |
| 2022 | Rains On Me | Troubador, Los Angeles CA, 18 March 2022 | Co-written | Chuck E. Weiss / Waits | Link | ||