Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and EncountersChicago Review Press, 1 серп. 2011 р. - 480 стор. Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: &“the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.&” Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters. Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: &“Vocabulary is my main instrument;&” &“We all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;&” &“Anything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;&” &“Growth is scary, because you're a seed and you're in the dark and you don't know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;&” and &“There is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.&” Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty interviews from the more than five hundred available. Here Waits delivers prose as crafted, poetic, potent, and haunting as the lyrics of his best songs. |
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... album by album. Waits's spoken rap is as compelling as his diamond-precision lyrics. He becomes, at times, a synthesis of inflections that reflect a Who's Who of verbal influences: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, some ...
... ALBUM: Closing Time LC: Now, what do you think about the whole deal of making an album and all that stuff? How did it work out? TW: I'd been living here in San Diego and taking the bus up to the hoots at the Troubadour, sitting out in ...
... album is in the works? TW: The second album will be called Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night, if I have my druthers. I'd like to record some old things that I was writing when I was working at the Heritage. I wrote a lot after the ...
... album, out about a year now, is called Closing Time and the only description that comes to finger is intuitive barroom nostalgia. “Virginia Avenue” tells of walking the main strip after the clubs have closed for the morning, finally ...
... album. I'd just like to do my second album because the first one's old already.” Tom's songs will never grow old and I'd tell you more about him if I had the space. If you can't get to Ebbets by Sunday, Closing Time is worth the ...
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January 23 1979Tom Waits for No One | 107 |
Heartattack and Vine 1980 | 113 |
Swordfishtrombones 1983 | 129 |
Rain Dogs 1985 | 151 |
Late 1985Rain Dogs Tourbook | 164 |
Franks Wild Years 1987 | 181 |