Beauty and the Bad Boy: Rebekka Bakken Sings Tom Waits In recent years, the Norwegian cosmopolitan has intensively studied American songwriter culture and recorded her last two albums "Morning Hours" and "September" in the USA with local producers. In the process, she has made her talent as an independent songwriter sparkle Both albums were great successes. On her upcoming longplayer "Little Drop Of Poison" she now surprises with a Tom Waits program that is unique in this form. The sometimes abysmal, sometimes deeply melancholic songs of the American multi-talent have so influenced Rebekka Bakken in such a way that the new album comes along without any of her own songs, but no less personal than its predecessors Rebekka recorded the stylistically diverse work with the hr-Bigband under the unsurpassed arranger + musical director Jörg Achim Keller. The program about love, sex, alcohol and the other important things in life will also be presented live on tour by Rebekka Bakken with the hr-Bigband The album title is program: Rebekka Bakken sings the Waits songs so outstandingly well that one can indeed poison oneself with these songs. Long-term effect still unknown.