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| | Tom Waits - definition of Tom Waits in Encyclopedia |
 | | His wife is regularly credited as co-author of many songs on his later released albums, and is often cited by Waits as a major influence on his work. | | | Waits declined the offer, and Frito Lay hired a Waits soundalike to sing a jingle similar to "Step Right Up," which is, ironically, a song Waits has called "an indictment of advertising." [1] (http://www.joe.trussell.com/waits/frito_lay.html) ("Step Right Up" concludes with the lyric "What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away"). | | | Waits sued, and Levis agreed to cease all use of the song, and offered a full page apology in Billboard Magazine. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Tom_Waits
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| | ANTI- Artist - Tom Waits |
| | Waits' first formal recording, Closing Time was released in 1973 and contained the song, "Ol' 55," which was also covered by his labelmates The Eagles for their On the Border album. | | | The album, which synthesized Waits' affinity for the American song tradition with his love of naturalistic sound worlds, was arguably the most direct and intimate album of his career. | | | Most recently, Waits has contributed "Little Drop of Poison" to the Shrek 2 soundtrack and recorded "King Kong" for the Daniel Johnston tribute album, Waits also collaborated on a song with The Eels for an upcoming album, as well as with Los Lobos on their most recent release The Ride. |
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| | Tom Waits: The Mule Variations ---Ink Blot Magazine |
| | Waits recorded material for Cohen that was primarily solo acoustic guitar and piano ballads and were later released as The Early Years: Volumes 1 & 2. | | | Tom's voice still sounds like he's gargling a driveway, and his band continues the pattern of his Island recordings, sounding as though they've been the house band at the lounge of Satan himself for so long that they might have acquired both his immortality and his omniscience. | | | One of the many ironic things about Tom Waits is that he is not only the most consistent recording artist of the last thirty years, but also the most diverse and adventuresome. |
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| | Tom Waits |
| | Waits' music, in short, from the early 80s to today, has managed to be as interesting and as experimental as his songwriting has always been. | | | It is this attention to mood, this willingness on Waits' part to change the sound of songs to fit their contexts, that sets this disk apart from just about every other popular recording you're likely to hear this year. | | | Waits wrote his own songs, of course, but he recorded them in much the same way that other singer/songwriters (James Taylor, Carole King, Paul Simon) recorded theirs. |
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| | Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority |
| | Waits contributes a leftover Woyzcek song to Solomon Burke’s comeback album. | | | Waits is invited to play guitar and organ at a Roy Orbison tribute concert alongside Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Bonnie Raitt. | | | Waits saws off part of his kitchen counter to fit a piano, while the rest of the room is overflowing with vinyl, books, empties and porn. |
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| | Salon Directory |
| | Waits' belated decision to officially record this material may be related to the recent circulation of bootlegs of his original demos. | | | Tom Waits released two proper records in a decade. | | | With this security, the '90s and oughts have found Waits free to make such career moves as not releasing a new studio album between 1992's "Bone Machine" and 1999's "Mule Variations." Or, at present, releasing two on the same day: the brand-new "Alice" and "Blood Money" (originally titled, perhaps too Stephen-Kingishly, "Red Drum"). |
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| | WFUV 90.7 Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight® Playlist |
| | All songs are live in studio performances by Tom Waits. | | | TOM WAITS recorded December 14, 1976 Mediasound Studios aired on December 18 (?), 1976 on WNEW-FM "Nighthawks On The Radio" This appearance has been bootlegged many times and, since the advent of the internet, it has appeared in various forms of varying quality on many fan websites. | | | My recollection is that Tom played an acoustic upright piano. |
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| | Tom Waits: 'Alice' and 'Blood Money': Pitchfork Review |
| | Those of you who first heard Tom Waits, as I did-- that is, over lasagna at the house of a junior-high teacher with a skin disease who was trying to seduce you-- will relish the albums' creepy love songs. | | | Okay, so this is the first group of Waits songs where the ingredients seem so familiar that listeners feel empowered enough to try to guess the recipe and write their very own Tom Waits Song (I'm talking to you, Joe Henry). | | | Both of Waits' new discs are their own concept albums, and both are collections of sick Germanic showtunes resulting from overseas theatrical collaborations with Robert Wilson (the man infamous for staging Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach, and with whom Waits made The Black Rider). |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/w/waits_tom/alice-blood-money.shtml
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| | Salon.com People Tom Waits |
| | Waits is an inimitable song stylist (take a look at efforts by the Eagles and Rod Stewart to cover his songs if you don't believe me), but it is his cover of a show tune that may help explain him best. | | | But when Waits delivers the same line to open his 1978 album "Blue Valentine," the song is transformed. | | | Anyone seeking the distilled essence of Tom Waits can find it in a song that he didn't even write. |
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| | Tom Waits |
| | But the very fact that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Tom Waits is still willing to go back eighty years, resuscitate a genre that's more or less thought of as dead and gone, and use it as a polygon for a truly heartfelt lyrical performance, is goddamn seducing. | | | Waits' albums had always been morose and dark, but the permeating feelings there were usually restricted to sorrow, separation, aimlessness, and disillusionment. | | | Perhaps Tom's decision to release two different albums on the very same day of the very same month and year won't come off as all that unpredictable considering that both are actually sort of "side projects", based on two different stage shows that Tom projected with Robert Wilson. |
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| | Amazon.com: Rain Dogs: Music: Tom Waits |
| | Tom's voice might not be the smooth sound of his earlier stuff but his adventures in lyrics and sounds more than make up for it. | | | The album isn't as much of an innovation in Waits' style as "Swordfishtrombone" was, but its a better and more consistent work than the previous album. | | | That album remained true to his 70's sound when it appears Tom was already shifting to his quite different 80's sound. |
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| | Tom Waits Supplement: Waits v. Frito-Lay |
| | And as they were not using the song as recorded by Waits himself, they didn't have to worry about copyright in the musical work (owned by Elektra/ Asylum). | | | Carter was a professional musician from Dallas and a Tom Waits fan. | | | Over ten years of performing Waits songs as part of his band's repertoire, he had consciously perfected an imitation of Waits' voice. |
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| | Thrasher Magazine: Tom Waits |
| | Waits' music seems to seep from the subconscious, while his lyrics pinpoint humanity often cloaked in shadow.--Eben Sterling | | | TOM WAITS IS A STORYTELLER par excellence, equal part campfire yarn spinner and sideshow circus barker. | | | He likened his writing process to "incantations or talking in tongues." A few of the songs on Real Gone were composed in their inception with only Waits' voice as percussion. |
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| | Tom Waits MP3 Downloads - Tom Waits Music Downloads - Tom Waits Music Videos |
| | Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. | | | Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles, from the jazzy "Virginia Avenue" to the up-tempo funk of "Ice Cream Man" and from... | | | But he also has a gift for gently rolling pop melodies, and he can come up with striking, original scenarios, as on the best songs, "Ol' 55" and "Martha," which Yester discreetly augments with strings. |
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| | Tom Waits for No Man |
| | I listen to Tom Waits, my favorite artist, but his style of music isn’t for everybody. | | | In more fan news, Jesca Hoop, an up-and-coming singer/songwriter from Northern California, recently received some high praise from Tom Waits who said her “music is like a four-sided coin. | | | It includes several Tom Waits tracks as well as biographies of the many artists included in the lists. |
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| | The Observer OMM Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time |
| | In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time. | | | We have one set of Tom Waits's 20 favourite CDs, courtesy of Fopp, and a signed vinyl copy of his most recent album Real Gone to give away. | | | Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time |
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| | Tom Waits (Preview) |
| | Waits is one of the few truly original musicians recording today. | | | Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits retraces the long road that Waits has travelled and explores the music that made him a legend. | | | A look at the music and legend of Tom Waits, the poet laureate of the American night. |
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| | Review: Tom Waits's The Mule Variations |
| | I love Tom's music, but the only reason my son got it for me is because Les Claypool from Primus backs Tom in "big in japan." Tom Waits was the voice of Tommy the cat on one of Primus's albums and I guess this is payback. | | | Actually I will be playing one of Toms songs for the first dance at my wedding in November. | | | Tom Waits, master storyteller and surrealist Beat gutter poet, gruff growling Beefheartian crooning voice, sonic painter of those places in between. |
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| | VH1.com : Tom Waits : Biography |
| | His formal recording debut came with Closing Time (1973) on Asylum Records, an album that contained "Ol' 55," which was covered by labelmates the Eagles for their On the Border album. | | | In the 1970s, Tom Waits combined a lyrical focus on desperate, lowlife characters with a persona that seemed to embody the same lifestyle, which he sang about in a raspy, gravelly voice. | | | A small tour followed, but Waits jumped right back into the studio and began working on not one but two new albums. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: W: Waits, Tom |
| | Manifesto Records: Tom Waits Tributes - Information about two tribute albums on this record label. | | | Tom Waits Lyrics - Lyrics, newsletter, bibliography, and CD trading. | | | The Covers Project: Tom Waits - Lists the artists' songs covered by others. |
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| | Tom Waits Fan |
| | In "Tom Traubert's Blues" on the album Small Change, what is tom reffering to when he says "and my Stacys are soaking wet". | | | Waits, who last appeared in the UK at the London Hammersmith Odeon in November 1987, will come back to the UK on November 23 to play at the Hammersmith Apollo. | | | Written and produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and long- time collaborator, REAL GONE features 15 tracks of funk, Jamaican rock-steady, blues both urban and rural, rhythms and melodies both Latin and African and, for the first time, no piano. |
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| | Waits, Tom (Thomas Alan) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Waits, Tom (Thomas Alan) |
| | Waits developed a beatnik hobo persona on his early albums (Closing Time (1973), Nighthawks at the Diner (1976), Small Change (1977)) with songs like ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking’ and ‘Tom Traubert's Blues’. | | | His later work has a spare, twisted jazz feel and suggests the influence of German songwriter Kurt Weill&; for example, Swordfishtrombones (1983), Bone Machine (1992), and Mule Variations (1999). | | | He has written music for and acted in several films, including Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law (1986). |
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| | Tom Waits News |
| | Gravel-voiced singer Tom Waits has triumphed in his court battle with Volkswagen-Audi, after the car firm hired an impersonator to sing one of his songs in a Spanish Tv advert. | | | There was a time when album cover art contextualized the music itself. | | | Over a 30-year career Tom Waits has established himself as one of the most idiosyncratic - and most influential - musicians in America. |
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| | Tom Waits: Real Gone: Pitchfork Review |
| | Real Gone, like most of Tom Waits' records, is teeming with all kinds of mysterious noises: clangs and spits, faceless hollers, squawks, irrational toots, not-quite-human coughs, vicious bangs, apologetic whispers. | | | And there is always a place that Tom Waits thinks it would be best for them to avoid. | | | Wife and longtime collaborator Kathleen Brennan (who co-wrote and co-produced Real Gone, along with Waits' last eleven records), has sagely proclaimed that all Tom Waits' songs can be easily slapped into one of two categories: Grim Reapers and Grand Weepers. |
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| | Tom Waits Udderly Ticked Off - Apr 25, 2005 - E! Online News |
| | "We actually are surprised about the fact that Tom Waits considers the music that goes with the current TV commercial 'Lullaby' for a range of Opel cars a potential misuse of his voice and style of singing," the company said in a statement Thursday. | | | In the early '90s, Waits sued Third Story Music for breach of contract for selling two of his songs to marketers overseas without his consent. | | | Even his old record label was a target. |
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| | The Eyeball Kid |
| | On GavinFriday.com the singer mentions Tom Waits' involvement in a Chanteys and Sea Songs tribute album. | | | According to the site, the album's release on Epithaph records is scheduled for July 2006. | | | The new edition of Jay S. Jacobs' biography Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits is on schedule and will be published in May. |
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| | BARROOM BARD'S NEXT ROUND |
| | Waits gets his barnyard soundscape by overloading tape, slamming vintage microphones with information and singing the often bizarre "mouth rhythms" that fill the backgrounds of his songs. | | | Waits did offer one piece of songwriting advice that he tries when he finds himself stuck. | | | Never destined for MTV stardom or Top of the Pops success, Waits can nonetheless make releasing a new album a cultural event. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Alice: Music |
| | 'Alice' is the eighteenth studio album from Tom Waits, and follows on from 1999's 'Mule Variations'. | | | Bear in mind, Waits wrote the songs and chose the sequence on the album, Wilson chose the sequence in the play. | | | I bought this album after hearing the opening song for it which says something for how good it is. I'm a musician myself so usually i don't have favourate albums or songs but alice would defintly be high in my list. |
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| | Tom Waits Live MetaFilter |
| | You should be in to Tom Waits because you like his music. | | | I've just been reading a Tom Waits biog on the train to work this week (finished it a couple of hours ago, so this post is rather spooky). | | | Coffee with Tom Waits - a recent interview. |
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| | Tom Waits Bootlegs |
| | Tom was either feeling really artistic this night or really drunk because these songs do not sound a lot like the originals. | | | Raindogs Promo Album 25min - Tom speaks about the album "Raindogs" New York City, NY 11/20/85 120min. | | | Alice Demos - Songs for a Musical/Opera Tom wrote. |
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| | Tom waits - TOM WAITS rain dogs |
| | Real Gone is a departure for Tom Waits inasmuch as it’sa new set of songs with I’ve always liked the idea of Tom Waits, but the sheer wealth of material | | | Chosing the so-called ???best record by“ Tom Waits opens up the same “Rain Dogs” stands out musically and lyrically, but which Tom Waits record doesn’t? | | | Vicki Kerrigan interviews one of the most distinctive voices is modern music Whether three sheets to the wind at home or on the phone to ABC Radio hes a |
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| | Shore Leave - A Tom Waits Page |
| | Tom will be on a benefit CD for WM3 (West Memphis Three) to be released in early June, 2000 | | | Tom has two new songs (realaudio samples) from Atlantic Records. | | | New Tom Waits Releases on May 7th from Anti Records : Alice |
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| | Tom Waits |
| | Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Tom Waits... | | | The Tom and Dick Smothers Brothers Special I (1980) (TV).... | | | Find where Tom Waits is credited alongside another name |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Waits, Tom |
| | EDMONTON -- In a land of Shania Twins, Hells Belles and Nearly Neils, a Tom Waits tribute band is a welcome breath of fresh air. | | | Will Tom Waits be too esoteric to pay musical homage to on a regular basis? | | | Proving again that Canadians have an affinity for professional oddballs, music consumers in this country snapped up a total of more than 10,000 copies of two new albums by gravel-voiced singer-songwriter Tom Waits last week. |
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| | Tom Waits - Angora Shoes! |
| | Tom Waits, tom waits, tom, waits, tomwaits, discography, TomWaits, Waits Tom, Mule Variations, Closing Time, The Early Years, Heart Of Saturday Night, Frank's Wild Yearsm, Anthology of Tom Waits, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack A |
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| | Real Gone, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | Real Gone is another provocative moment for Waits, one that has problems, but then, all his records do. | | | With songwriting and production partner Kathleen Brennan, he strips away almost everything conventional from these songs, taking them down to the essences of skeletal rhythms, blasted and guttural blues, razor-cut rural folk music, and the rusty-edge poetry and craft of songwriting itself. | | | His cast includes guitarists Marc Ribot and Harry Cody, bassist/guitarist Larry Taylor, bassist Les Claypool, and percussionists Brain and Casey Waits (Tom's son), the latter of whom also doubles on turntables. |
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| | Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Tom Waits :: All Stripped Down (Page 1) |
| | After disappearing from the recording scene for most of the ’90s, this gravel-throated minstrel is experiencing a comeback, a renaissance rocketing the 55-year-old right back to the singer/songwriter vanguard—turf he first staked out back in ’73 with his decadent Asylum Records debut, Closing Time. | | | Griffin assembles a stellar array of bruised and brooding songs, giving this stark yet warm album a tangible atmosphere and a distinct emotional weight. | | | Last night—in his first performance in five years, at Vancouver’s intimate 2,400-seat Orpheum Theatre—he strolled onstage in his regulation baggy black suit and skewed pork-pie hat, all spider-limbed and spectral, and then tore through most of the primal-blues jackhammers from his new album, Real Gone. |
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| | Tom Waits - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | A SUCCESSFUL musician, movie star, and film composer, Tom Waits has never had a commercial hit; some of his songs are best-known for being covered by other people. | | | Tom Waits - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | He has a huge fan base, but doesn't tour. |
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| | Join the Tom Waits Webring! |
| | This ring is for all pages that pay tribute or offer information about the life, works, & music of the great Tom Waits. | | | We also welcome any other sites with music & materials related to or similar to Tom Waits. | | | This Webring was designed to better organize Tom Waits related sites on the web. |
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| | Tom Waits - Quotes - Maintained by Yair Shmuely |
| | "Tom do this, Tom do that, Tom...don't do that" | | | "I always wondered how Tom Waits would sing Greensleeves...." --Loreena McKennitt, _The Visit_ (liner notes for Greensleeves) | | | "...If you want a taste of madness, you'll have to wait in line. |
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| | Tom Waits Lyrics |
| | Tom Waits, tom waits, Tom, Waits, lyrics, lyrix, hard to find, german, news, Is Cool, Swordfishtrombone, Newsletter, Lupus, lupus | | | Hier finden Sie Informationen zu den folgenden Themen: |
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| | Tom Waits Sues General Motors |
| | In 1988 Frito-Lay similarly used a Waits impersonator to sell its SalsaRio Doritos corn chips to radio listeners. | | | In April of this year, Waits issued a press release to assure confused fans who had mistaken the impersonator for him that he had not in fact participated in the advertisement or compromised his policy to keep his music, voice and image out of commercials. | | | I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor. |
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| | Waits Surfing |
| | The Tom Waits Resource Page is a convenient place to find Waits sites, sound files, lyrics, guitar tabs/chords or to sign up for Raindogs [the Tom Waits Net mailing list] or search alt.music.tom-waits newsgroup. | | | The Lyrics and the Players for Franks n' Bone | | | The url changed recently and a lot of pages which link to the sight haven't caught up yet; the new url is |
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| | Tom Waits Supplement: Grand Weepers and Grim Reapers... |
| | Tom Waits, Biography, Filmography, Discography, Tour, Lyrics, Pictures, Black Rider, Alice, Woyzeck, Tom, Waits, Tom Waits, tomwaits, Tom Waits | | | Tom Waits Supplement: Grand Weepers and Grim Reapers... |
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| | Tom Waits |
| | Somebody's made a terrible mistake." Nobody loves, or understands, a loser quite as much as Tom Waits. | | | For more than two decades, he has built up a unique body of work. |
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