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	Mule Variations -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations is an album by (additional info and facts about Tom Waits) Tom Waits, released 1999 by the Anti sub-label of (additional info and facts about Epitaph Records) Epitaph Records.
		It was the first real studio album by Waits since 1992's (additional info and facts about Bone Machine) Bone Machine (the later (additional info and facts about The Black Rider) The Black Rider album was a collection of songs originally written for a play).
		Related promo CD As a promotional limited offer, a mini-album titled Hold On was later released with two of the tracks from the Mule Variations album plus two previously unreleased tracks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/mule_variations.htm (186 words)

	Tom Waits: The Mule Variations ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Born in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949, Tom Waits was "discovered" as a musician by Herb Cohen in the early 1970's.
		The Mule Variations is his latest release, and his first for Epitaph Records.
		The Mule Variations, his long-awaited new release, is perhaps his first album that doesn't sound like it's just stopping off at your stereo before it pulls out and trucks on to a whole new musical destination.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Tom_Waits_Mule_Variations.htm (451 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Ain't nothin' funny about a drunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Mule Variations" is Waits' 13th proper solo album, his first since 1992's "Bone Machine." He was on Island then; he's on the SoCal punk imprint Epitaph now, presumably free to explore his sonic obsessions, boiler-room rhythms, field-recorded chain-gang calls and battle-stripped jazz and blues without sweating the bottom line.
		Sonically, "Mule" is vintage Tom; as usual, Waits co-wrote 12 of the album's 16 songs with his wife and partner in crime, Kathleen Brennan, and instrumentalists Joe Gore, Ralph Carney, Stephen Hodges and Marc Ribot all turn up again.
		Given all that, "Mule Variations" is a uniquely Waitsian curveball, a collection of surprisingly funky dirt-road grooves, devotional murmurs and disarming odes to family, friendship and domesticity.
	archive.salon.com /ent/music/feature/1999/04/27/waits (1100 words)

	GENETIC VARIATION IN A RECENTLY ISOLATED POPULATION OF MULE DEER (ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS)
		Genetic variation is necessary for evolution of populations in response to environmental change (Allendorf and Leary, 1986).
		Consequently, maintenance of genetic variability in natural populations is an essential component of conservation efforts aimed at ensuring long-term persistence of wildlife populations (Frankham, 1995).
		Mule deer at RMA have been isolated from free-ranging populations since March 1990 when a 3-m fence was erected around this 70.2-kM2 Site to limit public access.
	www.uga.edu /srel/Reprint/2377.htm (350 words)

	village voice > music > Mule Variations: Tom Waits for someone by Luc Sante
		An innovation on Mule Variations is the employment of a turntable artist, who as it turns out is so discreet you hardly notice, except on "Eyeball Kid," which makes brilliantly apposite use of a sampled gospel choir and Balinese ketjak chanters (one of whom sounds remarkably like a tobacco auctioneer).
		Mule Variations finds Waits in a more rural mood than he's previously been, although you wouldn't exactly call it mellow.
		Right now, Mule Variations sounds like a rock-solid Waits outing with less angst and more roots and few huge surprises, but that last phrase is subject to change.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9919,sante,5543,22.html (946 words)

	Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Ani/Epitaph) - Drawer B Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations is Waits' first new record in six years since The Black Rider in 1993.
		Mule Variations is the first Tom Waits record to make a concerted effort to tip its hat to all of Waits' schizophrenic styles from the avant guard clanks and scronks of Swordfishtrombones to the more commercial songwriting of Rain Dogs and even on to the apocalyptic, death obsessed Bone Machine.
		Fortunately, Mule Variations is as relevant as any of his records in the eighties, if slightly less groundbreaking, and it will undoubtedly be one of the most revered records released this year.
	www.drawerb.com /99/05/tomwaits.htm (715 words)

	Jared's Pick - Album Reviews: Tom Waits - Mule Variations
		Mule Variations is a summing-up of everything Waits has done in his 25 year career, from the tender piano ballads of his early years to the growling, clanging carnival stomps of his brilliantly experimental 80's work to the distorted cacophony of Bone Machine, his 1991 masterpiece.
		Self-described as surrural (surreal + rural), much of Mule Variations sounds as if Alan Lomax had stumbled onto a drunken hobo carrying a tattered copy of a Charles Bukowski anthology and asked for a field recording.
		He's also remarkably touching, with a vision of passion that was born "as soon as I put your picture in a frame," and in the heart-wrenching "Take it With Me" argues that love might be as immortal as the poets say.
	www.angelfire.com /nh/jaredspick/tomwaits.html (405 words)

	Mule Variations - Tom Waits
		Mule Variations (Epitaph Records) all the more triumphant is the sense of an artist coming full circle by integrating his more extreme sonic innovations with richly crafted songwriting and adding a little dash of hope to the proceedings.
		Even the outtakes from Mule Variations are first rate: "Buzz Fledderjohn", available only on import editions of the album, is a spooky ode to a neighbor’s yard, while "Fish in the Jailhouse" has emerged as a foot-stomping staple of Waits’ current concert tour.
		At a time when most of his musical contemporaries are devoting their dwindling energies to Miller Lite music and tired "unplugged" rehashes, the nearly 50-year-old Tom Waits is at a creative peak, recording on his own terms for a relatively small punk rock label and giving electrifying performances before sellout crowds around the country.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/MuleVariations.htm (460 words)

	Mule.net: Press
		Gov't Mule, the jam circuit's proverbial pack animal, is known for its grueling commitment to the road and extended improvisational sets that push the upper registers of its instruments.
		In 2000, shortly after the release of their critically acclaimed record, Life Before Insanity, the close musical kinship that the group had developed came to a tragic end when bassist Allen Woody was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room from unknown causes.
		They have so much material that after a year on the road behind their latest release, Deja Voodoo, they are in a quandary whether to play their new material live or hoard it for themselves.
	www.mule.net /press/press.php?article=77 (767 words)

	Flak Magazine: Tom Waits' Mule Variations, 01.26.00
		Mule Variations is actually less a variation and more a hybrid of his earlier lounge repertoire and his more recent burlesque infatuations.
		Production on The Mule Variations is a prime example of what happens when you try to pull an old, warm analog sound out of super-high-fidelity, digital equipment.
		Mule Variations is more like an arm-wrestling match with Mom.
	www.flakmag.com /music/tomwaits.html (496 words)

	Mule Variations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations is the most thematically different album of Tom Waits's career.
		Comment: Listening to Mule Variations I can appreciate all the subtle and discreet sounds that are embedded in the recordings, giving such a rich and personal view of Tom Waits.
		The dust and dirt of the floor boards creaking beneath his feet as he plays the piano, the whispy air of outdoors, and gritty mid range eq, all give such organic texture you feel as if you are there.
	www.ecbzz.com /a-music/B00000IGGA/30/review/Mule-Variations.html (430 words)

	Skyscraper Magazine
		On the Mule Variations, there's a lot of spirituality, there's a lot of animals.
		There's definitely continuity with Mule Variations because you're working with a lot of people you've worked with in the past.
		So much of the new album, Mule Variations is...this is a bluesier record than some of your later stuff.
	www.skyscrapermagazine.com /features/waitsintvw.html (3932 words)

	Music: Mule Variations (Austin Chronicle . 04-26-99)
		On the cover of Mule Variations, Tom Waits' first album since 1993's Black Rider and his first non-soundtrack release since 1992's Bone Machine, the singer looks over the shoulder of his battered overcoat and into the camera.
		Not everything in his quarter-century oeuvre will hold up, but most of his efforts will tell compelling tales, and the brilliant and arcane Mule Variations will most likely be the last chapter for this century, a fin de siècle offering from the god of jukebox heartbreak and whiskey bottle wisdom.
		On Mule Variations, Waits lets his knife-sharp lyrics slice open the subjects, writing about the meat, the blood, and the muscle of life instead of just its dirty flesh and grimy underbelly as with the visceral opener, "Big in Japan."
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-26-99/austin_music_feature1_side.html (320 words)

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		Tom Waits grew steadily less prolific after redefining himself as a junkyard noise poet with Swordfishtrombones, but the five-year wait between The Black Rider and 1999's Mule Variations was the longest yet.
		Given the fact that Waits decided to abandon major labels for the California indie Epitaph, Mule Variations would seem like a golden opportunity to redefine himself and begin a new phase of his career.
		Mule Variations, in contrast, is a collection of moments, and while each of those moments is very good (some even bordering on excellent), ultimately the whole doesn't equal the sum of its parts.
	www.mp3.com /albums/360660/summary.html (573 words)

	RollingStone.com: Mule Variations : Tom Waits : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations, Waits' first studio album in six years, contains the most blues of any album he's made.
		The amazing thing about Waits is that he's still offering up his affectations like a new singer-songwriter on the first time out, still dreaming up wild, desperate fantasy scenarios of lawless small-town America during the B-movie era.
		We don't demand much from these figures, other than that they spill out their visions in chunks of an ongoing discourse; Mule Variations is just the latest installment of that discourse, and one wonders when Waits, who's not lacking for bold, dislocating ideas, might treat himself to a new start.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/135424/tomwaits?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1 (477 words)

	westword.com \| \| Music \| Mule Variations \| 2004-09-16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In addition to a number of successful tours, Mule released five albums, culminating with 2000's Life Before Insanity, a disc that was poised to be its commercial breakthrough.
		The Mule is at a place right now that I never would have believed we could reach." Haynes was able to keep the group going with the addition of bassist Andy Hess and keyboardist Danny Louis.
		But keeping the Mule going isn't the only thing Haynes has to be happy about these days.
	www.westword.com /issues/2004-09-16/music2.html (1262 words)

	Tom Waits - Mule Variations: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Waits [+] grew steadily less prolific after redefining himself as a junkyard noise poet with Swordfishtrombones [+], but the five-year wait between The Black Rider [+] and 1999's Mule Variations [+] was the longest yet.
		Given the fact that Waits decided to abandon major labels for the California indie Epitaph, Mule Variations [+] would seem like a golden opportunity to redefine himself and begin a new phase of his career.
		Mule Variations [+], in contrast, is a collection of moments, and while each of those moments is very good (some even bordering on excellent), ultimately the whole doesn't equal the sum of its parts.
	music.com /release/mule_variations/1 (454 words)

	Record Review (Detroit Metro Times) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It’s a curse because his music is so idiosyncratic that Waits — barring the kind of artistic quantum leap of his landmark album Bone Machine — too often runs the risk of becoming a caricature of himself, or at least inadvertently repeating himself, and his fans will call him on it.
		It is on this thin line between invention and repetition that Waits soft shoes expertly over the course of Mule Variations, his first album of new material since the arcane dervish opera, The Black Rider.
		Mule Variations is just what the title says: crossbred, bastardized and mutated takes on familiar Waits themes, sounds, grooves and atmospheres.
	www.metrotimes.com /19/31/Reviews/musWaits.html (302 words)

	Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) - RUTHLESS
		If Tom Waits was playing Reno on August 1st at midnight, Burning Man would be canceled and the desert would be emptied of all but a few ravers, because everyone worth talking to in any counterculture genre knows that Tom is the badass.
		I guess the same could be said for a few others: Nick Cave and PJ Harvey come to mind, but there aren't many artists that are successful on that level that still manage to sneak in under the radar of popular culture.
		Mule Variations is the most recent release by Tom Waits, not his best album, but still fantastic.
	ruthlessreviews.com /tomwaitsmulevariations.html (454 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mule Variations - Tom Waits at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Never once is the same kind of song repeated on "Mule Variations"; Waits constantly scratches, sneers, and shouts, which is why a lot of people might dislike the CD.
		But for those with open minds and an interest in non-mainstream music, "Mule Variations" will prove to be satisfying indeed.
		One of the strong points of Waits' music is his lyrics; they're a very important element, and the music would definitely be lacking without Waits' strong, interesting lyrics that add so much depth and mix perfectly with the music.
	www.epinions.com /content_8606682756 (838 words)

	Freeskills.com Shop :: Mule Variations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations is a masterpiece of an album that contains impressive, timeless songs of great lyrical depth, melodic beauty and stylistic variety.
		What's surprising about Mule Variations is how little he's strayed from the old Bone yard through the years.
		In the end, Mule Variations is the aural equivalent of a salvage shop that, while largely familiar, still has a few secluded chambers and trap doors.
	www.freeskills.com /shop_uk/B000023YFV/Mule_Variations.html (1002 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ Arts Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mule Variations, consisting of 16 new songs, is certainly not a disappointment.
		If you are looking for a radical new language on Mule Variations, you will be disappointed.
		This is, perhaps, caused by his use of familiar chords and melodies but there are undoubtedly new influences present.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1999.04.30/arts/mule.html (372 words)

	Eye - On Disc - 04.29.99
		Mule Variations is not so much an album as a neighborhood, with houses half-sunk in the muck and abandoned Studebakers in the yards.
		It's thrilling to hear, but there are at least two other songs performed with near-identical tempo and delivery, and none has the sweetness of "Jersey Girl." "Big in Japan" seems a dim echo of "Hang on St. Christopher," and with its over-calculated chaos, "Filipino Box Spring Hog" tips over the edge into self-parody.
		I feel churlish for griping, because Mule Variations is a great piece of work.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.29.99/music/ondisc.html (1490 words)

	UNo MAS: Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Let’s start off by saying that the term "artist" has been thrown around the world of rock and roll entirely too much as far as I’m concerned- everyone from Britney Spears to the Scorpions has been described as such in print and press and it’s ridiculous and a gross misuse of the word.
		Rock and roll by it’s very nature doesn’t really produce "artists", a variation on the argument that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a sort of oxymoron; once you"re inducted you cease to be "rock and roll".
		With all that said, I was listening to Mule Variations in the car on the way to the movies (Election- pretty fuckin’ funny) and I asked my girlfriend what she thought of it, she being a fan as well.
	www.unomas.com /reviews/music/reviews/item070.html (755 words)

	Music : Mule Variations
		The diverse guest list on MULE VARIATIONS is just as well, seeing as how MULE VARIATIONS is one of Waits' most varied efforts.
		I heard a horrible sound it was my older brothers radio blaring that horrible horrible music told him to stop that music.
		Mule Variations is perhaps one of Tom Waits best albums in many years.
	womens-place.com /B00000J7JH/Mule_Variations.htm (377 words)

	Tom Waits: Mule Variations: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So far, reviews of Mule Variations have been mixed, ranging from shameless hero worship (yeah, yeah, like this one), to jaded critics claiming that Waits hit his songwriting peak with 1985's Rain Dogs.
		I have one theory about those dissing Mule Variations: they know in their hearts what Ed Dorn and I have just told you, and crying out "He's slipping!" is a backhanded way of claiming equality with one of the world's greatest living performers.
		Mule Variations is a great album, and that's all there is to it.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/w/waits_tom/mule-variations.shtml (587 words)

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