Tom Waits to release 78 album with bonus record player

Tom Waits and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band offer a new 78rpm record and throw in the player for free.

Waits collaborated with the legendary New Orleans jazz collective on a benefit album called Preservation.
Since the album was inspired an old 78rpm recording, and since they’d been having so much fun, Waits and the band recorded a cover of two Danny Barker songs - ‘Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing’ and ‘Corrine Died On The Battlefield’.

There will be 504 copies of the 78, and the first hundred will come with a custom-made Preservation Hall 78rpm record player.

That, of course, is only available to those choosing the ‘Deluxe Donation’ package, in the $200 range, but the 78 alone can be bought for $50.

If you want to pay a little more you can pick up your copy in person at the hall in New Orleans from November 19, or wait to order online from November 20 at the dot com.