These first seven albums constitute the first act of Waits’ remarkable career, even as these reissues complicate that journey from assembly-line singer-songwriter to eclectic iconoclast.
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Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, although they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for the albums Bone Machine and Mule Variation...
His first album, Closing Time, was well received by critics but didn’t garner much attention from the public until The Eagles recorded a cover of his song “Ol’ 55″ and put it on their album, On the Border. You can read the entire thought provoking essay as well as check out some...
Tom Waits, on the other hand, was the paradigmatic lounge lizard, barely coherent before the break of noon and apt to prowl the seedier boulevards of Southern California till the wee hours, his pungent character observations of hookers, voyeurs, junkies, small-time crooks, pimps and other soci...
unused songs and rarities.</p><p>This was my very first Tom Waits album and so it has a special place in my heart.</p><p>If you are more into blues rock oriented songs, go for Brawlers.<br>If you want melancholic ballads, go for Bawlers.<br>If you want to listen to a lecture...
It's a bit shocking to note that as late as 1957 they recorded an album called Minstrel Time (but the cover shows no evidence of blackface, and I'm more bothered by the Confederate flag on the cover of their 1967 album, On Parade). I don't doubt that they were delighted to have ...
Rolling Stoneplaced it at #216 in the 2020 edition of their500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Among its many gems, the album’s closing track, “Say Yes,” stands out as one of Smith’s most optimistic songs. It was written for his then-girlfriend, Joanna Bolme, but Smith was vague ...
As most everybody in history knows, this album came out the very same year that I was born. And Tom Waits and I have been on the same trailblazing passageway ever since. Closing Time indeed it was for me that year, as I was forcefully shoved out of my comfortable womb of wine, ...
Introduced this group on his 2018 album, with Josh Evans (trumpet), Marcus Strickland (tenor sax/bass clarinet), and Nasheet Waits (drums), with all four bringing songs. This one adds covers of Larry Young, Ornette Coleman, and Sonny Rollins; each, in its way, sharpening the edges. **...