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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... Sound Output 193 Big Time (1988) 203 PART III Bone Machine (1992) 209 July 1 992— "The Lie in Waits" Interviewer: Pete Silverton, Observer 211 September 1 992— "Composer, Musician, Performer, Actor: Tom Waits Is a Renaissance Man Whose ...
... sound. The man himself has a voice perfectly suited to that sound, and the group is well balanced (which is easy for one as small as theirs to be) and mellow. They are a fine intro group, and that is all that need be said about them ...
... sound and to music, and you have him from the instant you play anything for him. It's a very childlike response, and also very refined. “Waits: The Beats Go On . . .” Melody Maker June 21, 1975 Jeff Burger NEW YORK—Looking as if he ...
... sound of clanking glasses and silverware, the instrumental music on the speaker system is barely audible but Tom quickly identifies the tune and fills in its lyric: “Soon it's gonna rain / I can feel it / Soon it's gonna rain / I can ...
... Sound on Sound (January/February 2004): We did it as a live recording, which was unusual for an artist so new. Herb Cohen and I both had a sense that we needed to bring out the jazz in Waits more clearly. Tom was a great performer ...
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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 |