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as he’d have been bitterly disappointed if he had. With the odd exception, his albums have rarely made the slightest dent in the charts, while his singles have fared similarly poorly. But commercial success isn’t the yardstick by which to measure great artists, and Tom Waits is ...
Tom Waits wrote some basic jazzy ballads and be-bop swing tunes (similar to his earlier material), added in a bunch of really great lyrics about relationships falling apart and together -- and then allowed Crystal Gayle to treat the whole project like a photo-op with dead babies. She just...
The daunting problem here isn't so much sweeping the desk clear as finding other places to put everything, given that all the other places have similar problems. The first thing that needs to go is the black basket, which has my promo CD queue with hype sheets. Everything there is 2025...
“artists” instead of frat boys by putting Waits on during the evening shift at the Java Jive. That is one of the personal reasons I can’t stand to hear Waits. For me he announces the coming of the art student in paint-splattered overalls, with the black makeup and the dyed hair ...
They were trying to do this San Francisco psychedelic thing and it was a total failure, and David felt that Jerry couldn't take Waits in the direction he needed to go. But David knew the opportunity went both ways, and he said to me, 'This is your chance to get into album artists,...
Being the same age as the great man, (the TRUE king of R&R) and a career guitar player of similar duration, I can only say .glad he has the gumption to officially put out un-PhotoShopped pics at the same time as a mammoth tour on which he is attaining some record crowds and perform...
While there are many more examples of songs written by men from a woman’s point of view, few match the emotional power of the three I’ve featured today. These songs not only demonstrate the skill of their writers but also the ability of cover artists to bring fresh, profound interpretati...
Sora is a generative video model, similar to the likes of Runway’s Gen-2, Pike Labs Pika 1.0 and Stable Video Diffusion from StabilityAI. It turns text, images or video into AI video content. It is named for the Japanese word “sky,” which the company said was to show its "limitle...
Jeff Lynne (1990):'Armchair Theatre' doesn't manage the same smart consistency as Lynne's work with the Traveling Wilburys during the period. But it shares a similar sense of gumbo-pot stirring – and Wilbury buddies George Harrison and Tom Petty make important contributions. ...