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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... stuff? How did it work out? TW: I'd been living here in San Diego and taking the bus up to the hoots at the Troubadour, sitting out in front and waiting, going up and doing four songs on Monday night as often as I could. They allow you ...
... stuff, it's just a veritable . . . just like a fruit salad of all different kinds of songs and I'm real proud of it. I think it's gonna be a blockbuster, I don't know, it's kind of speculation but I listen to it a lot at home so I think ...
... stuff that, conceptually, I guess, I had in mind for an album storyline with some sort of collection of songs, like chapters, that weren't just a random handful of ballads, but something that tied together. Once I wrote “Saturday Night ...
... stuff like that. Lately I seem to be more concerned with that than writing real songs. HL: You read a lot of Kerouac ... stuff and see if it does any good, so I'll do that in September. Up until then, I'm gonna write a bunch of stuff ...
... stuff for one. Maybe called Easy Street, I don't know. I'm toying with some ideas for some songs so I'm working on some material right now. L: Did you get any writing done on the road? TW: It's difficult to do because it's hard to be ...
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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 |