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Tom Waits
The Bad As Me Deluxe CD comes in a stunning hard bound book-like case, a 40 page booklet sewn on the inside, a two CD disc set (1 CD with…
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Waits Tom
Throughout his career, Tom Waits has created milestone albums\nthat serve both to refine the music that has come before, and to\nsignal a new phase in his career. Bad As Me…
Barney Hoskyns
The exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.
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David Smay
As the 1970s ended, Waits felt trapped by his persona and career. But at his low point: Francis Ford Coppola asked Tom to write the score for One From the…
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Between the release of _Heartattack and Vine _in 1980 and _Swordfishtrombones _in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered…
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Pop/Rock Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos
Tom Waits’ brilliance is messy – he has so many ideas that sometimes unrealized songs are juxtaposed with moments of greatness on his albums. That may make for the occasional…
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Music from a collaboration with Robert Wilson, William Burroughs & Hamburg’s Thalia Theatre. Dark, fragile, terrifying.
Lucky Day (Overture)
Black Rider
November
Just The Right Bullets
Black Box Theme
‘Tain’t…
Tom Waits gives one side of his fifth album, Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his…
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Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and _Swordfishtrombones _in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered…
Tom Waits wrote a song called “Frank’s Wild Years” for his 1983 Swordfishtrombones album, then used the title (minus its apostrophe) for a musical play he wrote with his wife…
The 2nd in the “Frank” trilogy, this is Waits confidently harnessing his eclecticisms to produce a brilliantly off-beat and yet accessible album. A pinnacle of his career and of the…