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"Music is medicine to the people" - Common

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Tom Waits - Real Gone Image Needed this was as startling aOn Real Gone, Tom Waits walks a fraying tightrope. By utterly eliminating one of the cornerstone elements of his sound keyboards he has also removed his safety net. With songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan, he strips away almost everything conventional from these songs, taking them down to the essences of skeletal rhythms, blasted and guttural blues, razor cut rural folk music, and the rusty edge poetry and craft of songwriting itself.