Tom Waits (十一月 28, 2006) Season 11, Episode 148 - Self Mississippi Rising (2005) (TV Movie) - Self Bukowski: Born into This (2003) Self Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001) Self The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2000) (TV Series) - Self (1 episode, ...
Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Waits in fact has two separate careers. From 1973 (LP "Closing Time") to 1983 ("One From The Heart" soundtrack), he recorded nine LPs for Asylum Records, writing songs mainly in the manner of Tin Pan Alley, mixing them...
Waits wanted to find a new studio where he felt more comfortable, which wound up being a former chicken farm in Northern California: Prairie Sun Recording Studio in bucolic Cotati. Instead of the main tracking room, Waits chose a small spot in the basement that had been a hatchery. “I d...
" which Rod Stewart turned into a smash hit. The image of "rain dogs" - animals who've lost their way home because the rain has washed away their scent - is an appropriate symbol for the entire cast of characters Waits has brought to life over the years, and this album has thus far...
Waits’ twelfth studio album, The Black Rider, consists of studio versions of songs written by Waits for the Robert Wilson directed play of the same name. It’s very dark, very twisted, and some of the songs are a little too harsh for comfort. But for all its freakishness, it’s utte...
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.
Tom Waits: No, no. But, you know, more power to her. Pitchfork: Are you excited to hear it? Tom Waits: I don't know if I'm excited to hear it, but I'm curious. People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that ...
The Resurrection of Tom Waits For "Mule Variations," the singer-songwriter rounded up his multiple personalities — barfly poet, avant-garde storyteller, family guy — and came up with the biggest hit of his career Music By David Fricke ...
Towards the end of that period, the two shared an office on the Zoetrope Pictures lot in Hollywood, while Waits composed songs for Francis Ford Coppolla's film One From The Heart. "I would come to the studio in tennis shoes and shirt and he would come in looking like he just got off...
's ancient-mariner-on-a-bender, post-pubescent grover, golem-in-a-tux, and gungan boss hogg). 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...