He was a doorman, a firefighter and a Coast Guardsman before he ever dipped a toe in the music business. “To be a sharecropper.” Humble beginnings for the father of the blues. “That was the life that was there for him,” he added. “Trouble with Robert is that he wouldn’t get behind the mule in the morning and plow,” Waits quoted the elder Johnson as saying. It was inspired by, of all people, the father of the mythologized bluesman Robert Johnson. Don’t let the weeds get higher than the garden. “Get Behind the Mule” is a song of instructions. When the world feels hostile, take his hand, stand right here, and hold on. His child’s response? “It must be hard to dance like that when you’re so cold and there’s no music.” Instead of mining the sight for cheap laughs, Waits grew it into a meditation on tenacity - and his marriage to Brennan. On a bus trip with his young daughter, Kellesimone, Waits saw a character cutting a rug on a street corner, sans music. It began with the Waitsian sight of a street dancer in freezing weather.
Just as Variations threatens to topple into darkness, Waits delivers “Hold On,” one of his warmest, most empathetic songs. The bare, devastated music suggests Job scraping at his boils. Waits envisages a nightmare-world of reversals: a horse whipping its jockey, a dice throwing a man, Jezebel naked with an axe. “I think we all know where the low side of the road is.” He took the abyssal vibe even further. “He was rolling over to the low side of the road,” said Waits in a 1999 interview, as if he witnessed the knife-fight firsthand. The story goes that in 1930, Lead Belly was jumped by a group of white men, produced the penknife he used as a guitar slide, and summarily went to jail for attempted murder. “Lowside of the Road” was inspired by a blues anecdote. “Big in Japan” is about a puffed-up palooka bragging about his overseas appeal whether or not his story checks out, Waits and Primus play like they have the whole damn nation on their knees. “I see myself in the harbor, ripping up the electrical towers, picking up cars, going in like Godzilla and levelling Tokyo,” said Waits. “It sounded like some guy alone in a room, which it was, trying his hardest to sound like a big, loud band.” This soundbyte gets blown up to IMAX size: Primus’ bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Larry LaLonde tear up the mix like rampaging giants. “I started screaming and banging on this chest of drawers really hard, ‘til it was kindling,” said Waits.
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