NME’s finger on the pulse Tom Waits news

Popular UK music news website NME announced last night that the legendary Tom Waits would be collaborating with the Preservation Hall Jazz band on a limited edition 78rpm single.

This news is in fact one year old!

The news was originally posted on Waits’s official website on October 11th 2010, with orders taken in November.

The record’s A side can be heard in the clip below.

Waits, meanwhile, does have a brand new album on the way. ‘Bad As Me’, a completely new collection of songs, is in stores on October 24th. A digital download of the title cut has been available since August 23rd.