"Brennan is the longtime co-writer, producer, and wife of Waits, and often credited by her husband for helping push him in a more musically experimental direction."
""She rescued me," Waits once told The Guardian. "Maybe I rescued her too, that's often how it works. Upshot is that we both got into the same leaky boat.""
""Everybody knows she's the brains behind Pa, as Dylan might have said. I'm just the figurehead. She's the one who's steering the ship.""
Where the Willow and the Dogwood Grow is a compilation album featuring 19 covers of songs by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Scheduled for release on May 29, the album includes contributions from notable artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash. Many of the covers were selected by Waits and Brennan themselves. Kathleen Brennan, a key collaborator and wife of Waits, has significantly influenced his musical direction, with Waits acknowledging her as the driving force behind his work.
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