Tom Waits - “Lie to Me“ (Late Show with David Letterman, November 2006)

A stripdown performance of “Lie to Me“ by iconic American musician Tom Waits, performed live on Late Show with David Letterman on November 27, 2006. The song was performed in promotion of Waits’ then-recently-released box set Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers Bastards, which was released a week prior. DISCLAIMER I do not, nor have I claimed that I, own the media file, or content of said file, featured in this video. The audio is used for the purposes of criticism and comment on the artist Tom Waits and this particular performance. It is intended -- in the context of scholarship -- to inform the viewer/listener of the sound of Leadbelly and this performance while not displacing the original recording. This complies with section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 which states that “the fair use of a copyrighted work... for purposes such as criticism, comment,... not an infringement of copyright.“ The featured video is an televised recording, recorded by