Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan cover album to feature Bruce Springsteen, Ramones, and more

A compilation of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan covers is set for release on Friday, May 29 via Ace Records.

Titled Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow, the album will feature 19 reinterpretations of Waits and Brennan's songs from the likes of the Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, and Joan Baez, among others. Waits and Brennan personally selected many of the album features.

The Cork-born Brennan has long been credited as Waits' producer and co-writer. The two married in 1980 before formally beginning their creative partnership with Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones. 

Waits has stated it was Brennan who first helped him expand beyond genre and try out experimental sounds.

The title Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow is drawn from 'Down There By The Train', sung by Johnny Cash midway through the album.

This is not the first Waits tribute album to spotlight big names in music. 2019's Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits boasted features from Roseanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Aimee Mann, and Corinne Bailey Rae.

The album is tracklisted chronologically by song. It's available for preorder now.

Read the full tracklist for Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow below.

1. Jersey Girl – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (Live at Meadowlands Arena, NJ – July 1981)
2. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
3. Gin-Soaked Boy – Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes
4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon – Los Lobos
5. Hang Down Your Head – Lucinda Williams
6. Temptation – Diana Krall
7. Yesterday Is Here – Bettye LaVette
8. Way Down In The Hole – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
9. Strange Weather – Marianne Faithfull
10. I Don’t Want To Grow Up – Ramones
11. Down There By The Train – Johnny Cash
12. House Where Nobody Lives – King Ernest
13. Picture In A Frame – Willie Nelson
14. Hold On – Madison Cunningham
15. The Long Way Home – Norah Jones
16. 2:19 – John Hammond
17. Diamond In Your Mind – Solomon Burke
18. Trampled Rose – Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
19. Day After Tomorrow – Joan Baez