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Table of Content Tom Waits The Black Rider, Bone Machine, and Alice: 1989–1998 Album Discography Real Gone: 2004–2011 Jazz Pros tom waits Store We cannot guarantee the delivery services will do their jobs as they normally do, but we are factoring in an extra day on their side in these estimates. We are shipping as much as possible each day from now until the 23rd, and intend for every order that comes in, even after the 14th to deliver by the 23rd. His father, Jesse Frank Waits, was a Texas native of Scots-Irish descent, while his mother, Alma Fern (née Johnson), hailed from Oregon and had Norwegian ancestry. He recorded it at Sunset Sound studios and produced the album himself; Brennan often attended the sessions and gave him advice. Swordfishtrombones abandoned the jazz sound characteristic of his earlier work; it was his first album not to feature a saxophone. When the album was finished, he took it to Asylum, but they declined to release it. Waits wanted to leave the label;