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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... 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 ...
... Who's Who of verbal influences: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, some anonymous vaudevillian huckster, a pool-hall attendant, hobo, folkie, Mark Twain, Charles Bukowski, Dean Moriarty, or the anonymous singers of the ...
... who were both selfless and generous in their wish to be included in this collection. Also to Ken Langford, who has researched most thoroughly every detail, significant or not, of Waits's early career. Without his research, mine would ...
... who could make some intriguing records. “After [the show], I said that I was interested in him. He said, 'Well, I'll have my manager, Herb Cohen, call you.”' Geffen left the Troubadour thinking that since Cohen had his own record ...
... who would record it, and nobody did, but maybe that'll change. HL: Who do you listen to? TW: I listen to AM radio a lot cause I don't have an FM. I listen to Ray Charles; I got a lot of old Ray Charles records. Let's see, Diana Ross, I ...
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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 |