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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... songs—is that true? TW: I used to write a lot of them down there at KSON, which is the big country station. I listened to that a lot and wrote a lot of country songs. They don't get me off anymore. I still got a whole closet full of ...
... songs for other people during your songwriting contract? TW: That's the general idea—I was writing and then the songs were run around to other artists that don't write but put out that they want a song about a frog or something. A lot ...
... songs, for me it's just conceiving the idea for a song, visualizing it in your head and then putting it down is nothing, it comes out real easy. Trying to come up with something, that's challenging for me, I guess, to deal with as the ...
... songs and performance stand up in today's music market. Tom is a collector and researcher of bawdy stories and songs and participated in a workshop dealing with these topics at the Eighth annual San Diego State Folk Festival, where he ...
... songs before having to sprint to the station to catch an early morning bus back to San Diego. “The Troubadour hoot was like a slave market. People sell their souls to get up and play. A lot of times it pays off. People come from Georgia ...
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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 |