Back before his days as demented carnival barker and the macabre stories of butchers, German dwarves and the Eyeball Kid, Tom Waits was plying his craft as a gravel voiced faux-beat singer plink-plonking his way around a piano and writing songs about hookers, hobos and gangsters. Come to ...
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks at its songwriting core) returned for a live run-through of their most famous songs. It's great hearing them play the hits together again, but Nicks' discarded 'Rumours'-era B-side "Silver Springs" is the highlight. ...
Okay, so this is the first group of Waits songs where the ingredients seem so familiar that listeners feel empowered enough to try to guess the recipe and write their very own Tom Waits Song (I'm talking to you, Joe Henry). Okay, so a moratorium should be imposed on the kiss/bliss ...
Fleetwood Mac (1997):After a decade apart, Fleetwood Mac's most popular lineup (the one featuring Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks at its songwriting core) returned for a live run-through of their most famous songs. It's great hearing them play the hits together again,...
Tom Waits. Actor: Seven Psychopaths. Thomas Alan Waits was born in Pomona, California, to schoolteachers Alma Fern (Johnson) and Jesse Frank Waits. Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Waits in fact has two separate careers. F
His 2010 albumPraise & Blamewas a mix ofgospel,blues,spirituals, andfolk musicand earned him stellar reviews, and hisSpirit in the Room(2012)—covers of songs by musicians such asTom Waits,Leonard Cohen, andPaul Simon—was also well received. He became a judge (2012–15; 2017– ) for ...
Tom Waits Joins Iggy Pop for a Two Hour Radio Special This will be a treat of a listen 🎧 Tom Waits is going to co-host an Iggy Confidential episode! Echoing their famous joint appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, the two-hour programme will see the pair pump the...
Tom Waits' concert recordings just aren't very interesting. In the absence of crazy percussion, woogly optigan and weird production, he doesn't sound idiosyncratic and insane; he just sounds like a guy who's only ever written two songs. There's the piano ballad and the scraggly bloozy oom...
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Tom Waits, in his worn black suit and hat, looked like one of Samuel Beckett's tramps. This was the gravel-voiced singer-songwriter's first British concert in 17 years, so it felt like a Beckett play too:Waiting for Godotwith a happy ending (he turned up!) and songs that sounded lik...