Reddit reviews Orphans [Deluxe Limited Edition -- Bound 94 page booklet]

Thanks for sharing this with those of us who've never seen this. Holy crap, there is so much in this one interview! I probably missed half of the stuff he was talking about but here's some of the things I noticed:

"Did you record others that didn’t make it on the record?
Yeah, I did about 25 all together. There’s a religious song that didn’t get on the album. It’s called “Bethlehem, Pa.” it’s about a guy named Bob Christ. There were a couple of others.

What happens to those?
They’re orphans. They’re on their own."

And we all know what happened to the orphans!

Then there's this:

"A couple of years ago on my wife’s birthday we heard a song called “Jesus’ Blood Never Fails,” and it stayed in my head for so long."

Which he recorded with Gavin Byars

I picked up on this reference:

"How do you audition a road manager?
Well, you take a couple of candidates out toe the Mojave Desert and you leave the car by the side of the road and you walk for a couple of days, and when you get to a stream, the guys that want to drink from a cup, those are the guys you don’t want. It’s the guys that throw themselves headlong into the stream and just drink, those are the best soldiers."

Which is a reference/subversion of Judges 7:4

Then there's this:

"Then I’m doing a film with Robert Frank, who took the picture on the cover of this record. It’s called There Ain’t No Candy Mountain. It’s going to be written by Rudi Wurlitzer and directed by Robert Frank. We’re going to do it in the spring. It’s about a guy like Les Paul who becomes really famous as a guitar designer and manufacturer. Then he completely abandons everything and disappears. And this young guy goes looking for him."

Which became Candy Mountain and is welll-worth a watch for Tom alone. Crappy youtube upload. Tom shows up around 18:30. It's also got Buster Poindexter, Dr. John and other folks.

Really great 80's independent film for anyone who like instruments, songwriting or musicians.

And then this:

"Maybe I should say something about the title of the album, Rain Dogs. You know dogs in the rain lose their way back home. They even seem to look up at you and ask if you can help them get back home. ‘Cause after it rains every place they peed on has been washed out."