Just when it seemed that Los Angeles' premier bar casualty could not get any weirder, on his 15th album, Tom Waits teams up with beat writer William Burroughs (who turns up on one song) to score a 19th-century opera. The 20 tracks, written for director Robert Wilson's re-vision of ...
Tom Waits: The Acting Years (2019) (Video) - Self (archive footage), Performer ("The One That Got Away", "Shore Leave", "Jesus Gonna Be Here", "Goin' Out West", "Misery is the River of the World", "Rain Dogs", "What's He Building?", "Way Down in the Hole"), Writer (...
As the argument crescendoes, Waits finishes his song for Shelley, ‘The Creator, Not the Monster, Baby’ I relay all this to Waits as he ambles in. “That’s living, Isy,” he murmurs. “The rough and the smooth.”“Spot on, Tom!” I squeak, and remember to hand him a drink ...
Writer Carson O’Shoney positions Waits alongside literary anti hero Charles Bukowski as a prolific and highly influential outsider who defies categorization and continues to be relevant as trends come and go throughout the years.“He began his career in the underbelly of Los Angeles, inspired by ...
“he sounds like a boozier, earthier version of the same.” The description might cause some fans of Waits who discovered him ten years later withSwordfishtrombonesto furrow their brows. Sure, we may always hear so...
Tom Waits' 'The Black Rider' marks the most unnerving turn ever taken by a man not exactly known for feel-good fluff.
Finally, since it’s Christmas week, I have to include “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” by Tom Waits. The narrator, a woman, writes a letter to a man named Charlie, and through her words, Waits delivers some of his most vivid and poignant storytelling. The song is writte...
In a novel case of voice theft, a Los Angeles federal court jury Tuesday awarded gravel-throated recording artist Tom Waits $2.475 million in damages from Frito-Lay Inc. and its advertising agency.
I made her sell it years ago when I thought Tom Waits was a boring old bluesman like Eric Clapton. I just hope that she mentions (a) a lot of the lyrics have to do with death, (b) it has "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," the ONLY Tom Waits song that could have conceivably been ...
He plays Lars, an Icelandic man-child who's obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest (which is a real thing!). Along for the ride is his childhood friend Sigrit (Rachel McAdams). When they finally get the chance to compete, will Lars' single-minded focus on winning ruin his ...