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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... voice in these pages—dozens!), may just be what the Daily Telegraph claims him to be: “the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.” He mystifies, startles, and tames his rowdy audiences with his wit. Waits is a practitioner of the fine ...
... voice, a shard of tin scraping his throat as he reads from Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck. Or maybe even warning against the inherent perils of authoring run-on sentences. Wouldn't he make it interesting ...
... 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.” Another show in Massachusetts ...
... voice that would eventually make Satchmo seem like Nat 'King' Cole in comparison.” Waits was still enduring his opening act stint when he came to Denver, Colorado. At the 230-seat club Ebbets Field (where Waits met Chuck E. Weiss), he ...
... voice had gotten rough, and he did the most incredible songs, I didn't want him to stop, and then when the show ended, I didn't want to go on. I wanted him to do another set. But I went on and played, and after the show he was hangin ...
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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 |