Every storyteller needs an audience, but Waits is a master fabulist whose diabolic razzle dazzle looms particularly great and grand in front of a crowd, as this 17-track feast of live performances demonstrates. The penultimate offering, "Story", a rasped yarn about purchasing Henry Ford's last breath on eBay, gives a taste of Disc 2, which comprises nigh on half an hour of "Tom's Tales": they're unfailingly, brilliantly off-kilter but not a patch on the songs themselves, of which "Make it Rain" from 2004's Real Gone, is a standout – the audience's rhythmic handclaps drive its raw blues along to an incantatory intensity.