Tom Waits [ tickets ], who recently wrapped up a nine-date tour that included his first club show in three decades, will issue a new, three-disc set dubbed "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" on Nov. 21.

The three-hour-plus collection will feature 54 songs, among them 30 new recordings. Rounding out the package will be a 94-page booklet. It will mark Waits' first new release since 2004's "Real Gone."

"Orphans are rough and tender tunes," Waits said in a press release. "Rhumbas about mermaids, shuffles about trainwrecks, tarantellas about insects, madrigrals about drowning. Scared, mean, orphaned songs of rapture and melancholy. Songs that grew up hard. Songs of dubious origin rescued from cruel fate and now left wanting only to be cared for. Show that you are not afraid and take them home. They don't bite, they just need attention."

Among the songs making their first appearances on a Waits album are tracks originally recorded for films, the theater and other projects. The album also includes Waits' renditions of songs by The Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly, among others.

Each CD is separately sub-titled. The "Brawlers" set "is chock full of raucous blues and full throated juke joint stomp"; "Bawlers" "contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano and classic lyrical Waits' songs"; and "Bastards" "is filled with experimental music and strange tales," according to a press release issued by Anti Records.

Waits produced the album with his wife and longtime collaborator, Kathleen Brennan.

So far, no tour plans have been announced in conjunction with the album.

"Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" track listing:

Disc One: "Brawlers"
Lie To Me
LowDown
2:19
Fish in the Jailhouse
Bottom of the World
Lucinda
Ain't Goin' Down to the Well
Lord I've Been Changed
Puttin' on the Dog
Road To Peace
All the Time
The Return of Jackie and Judy
Walk Away
Sea of Love
Buzz Fledderjohn
Rains on Me

Disc Two: "Bawlers"
Bend Down The Branches
You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Long Way Home
Widow's Grove
Little Drop Of Poison
Shiny Things
World Keeps Turning
Tell It To Me
Never Let Go
Fannin Street
Little Man
It's Over
If I Have To Go
Goodnight Irene
The Fall Of Troy
Take Care of All My Children
Down There by the Train
Danny Says
Jayne's Blue Wish
Young at Heart

Disc Three: "Bastards"
What Keeps Mankind Alive
Children's Story
Heigh Ho
Army Ants
Books Of Moses
Bone Chain
Two Sisters
First Kiss
Dog Door
Redrum
Nirvana
Home I'll Never Be
Poor Little Lamb
Altar Boy
The Pontiac
Spidey's Wild Ride
King Kong
On the Road