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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... he's come a long way since Whittier. Then I moved to San Diego and I guess I kind of grew up around San Diego; I moved there when I was about ten. Howard Larman: I heard that you tried to write country songs—is that true? TW: I used to ...
... He's currently at Ebbets Field in Denver (through Sunday), where he's been opening shows for Roger McGuinn and Jerry Jeff Walker. “At this point, to open a show is ideal for me. I don't feel that much pressure because no one's paid $4 ...
... he's on this foggy road with MacMurray in the trunk with a little bit of his lapel sticking out the back of the trunk and this song comes on the radio. HL: Are you working on your second album now? TW: I just finished one before I went ...
... He's slick as deer guts on a doorknob. He's the cat's meow and I haven't had so much fun since Granny put her tits in a wringer. HL: Are you doing a lot of poetry? TW: A couple of things like that. I don't know if it's really poetry ...
... he's at the vanguard in my book; he just levels me. HL: What are your plans now? TW: Right now I guess I'm gonna stay in one place for a while. I think I've got a gig at Redlands and I think I've got one at McCabe's and I got one at ...
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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 |