small change got rained on with his own .38 and his headstone's a gumball machine no more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams and someone is hosing down the sidewalk and he's only in his teens small change got rained on with his own .38 and a fist full of ...
So try Closing Time and Small Change before you dive into Rain Dogs and SFT. david@cteainc.com (David Torres) Here is what many believe (me included) to be Waits' best. Over the top instrumentations, violent rhythms, lyrics that are so obscure they approach madness and some beautiful (...
Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter and actor whose gritty, sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and prominent musicians who performed and recorded his son
Tom Waits LyricsFollow Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor. His distinctive voice was described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding as though "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few...
At the time of its release, The Heart of Saturday Night didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes. Janet Maslin of The Village Voice called Waits’ lyrics vague, his puns ill-advised, and the mood “too self-consciously limited.”Fellow Village Voice music journalist Robert Christgauwas equally...
Big In Japan LyricsArtist: Tom Waits (Buy Tom Waits CDs) Album: Mule VariationsI got the style but not the graceI got the clothes but not the faceI got the bread but not the butterI got the winda but not the shutterBut I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But heh I'm big ...
The first meeting between Howe and Waits set the tone for their relationship. "I told him I thought his music and lyrics had a Kerouac quality to them, and he was blown away that I knew who Jack Kerouac was," says Howe. "I told him I also played jazz drums and he went wild. Then...
in his head. Anyway, someone stops by the bar, tells Tom his song is being recorded and it sounds like a hit. Tom runs down the street to the studio. He’s supposed to have gotten there in time to hear the second take. If that’s true, he hears a small change to his lyrics. ...
Title from one of two Tom Waits covers. Production is spare and laid back, which suits him fine (not that all the songs hold up). B+(**) [sp] Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra (2024, Red Hot +): Discogs files under Kronos Quartet, but they don'...
"but it would be really good for you to do because it will show everybody that you can do this." He played me an album called Closing Time by Tom Waits and I said, "I don't know if he's a jazz artist. I don't know what he is." He said, "Be careful. Don't make a jaz...