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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... released, he was pigeonholed as a mellow Asylum Records singer-songwriter, and there was only a tinge of rasp in a voice that would eventually make Satchmo seem like Nat 'King' Cole in comparison.” Waits was still enduring his opening ...
... released Waits's sophomore album, The Heart of Saturday Night. All the songwriting credits were retained by Waits with Bones Howe credited as engineer, producer, and soundman. Howe and Waits maintained a comfortable working relationship ...
... released Nighthawks at the Diner in October 1975. Asylum ads set the tone for the poetic booze-fueled themes of the double-LP, an anomaly for so young and unestablished an artist: “Tom Waits. A day late. A dollar short. His lips around ...
... released, winning even greater critical acclaim than did the well-received first (“I've never gotten any real strong verbal insubordination from any reviewers”). The after-hours mood persevered and strengthened. Waits's third album, a ...
... you're up till dawn, so you hang around coffee shops. It stops being somethin' you do—it becomes somethin' you are. SMALL CHANGE (1976) In September 1976, Waits released Small Change, NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER (1975) 61.
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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 |