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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... means a pianist, but I can pull it off. THE FIRST 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 ...
... means, you can tell it's a craft when you hold two songwriters up side by side, one who's good and one who isn't, you can tell who is craftier, I guess. HL: I know a lot of songwriters who say things just float in? TW: No, that's not ...
... mean it's hard to write for somebody else but me. I'm working on a couple that she might do. I'm sure she'd get thousands of 'em but I just at least get to ante in too. I don't know. Coffee and beer usually helps for a writing climate ...
... mean you can't go on like that forever.'” I think of the Tom Waits songs and stories, references to Roadmasters and musical Dynaflow transmissions and an older, out-of-phase value system, where comfort was the essential item and, as he ...
... mean as far as joining somebody that you admire and enjoy playing with. I've seen him in L.A. He's certainly a pioneer of contemporary poets. He's on Black Sparrow [Bukowski's publisher], and I've been reading him for a long time ...
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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 |