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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…
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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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Alex Harvey
Examines the formative, first decade of Tom Waits’ career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles.
The Black Rider is the twelfth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider…
2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went…
Waits intersperses the tough and the tender, mixing exercises in creative noisemaking with tunes that fall on just the right side of maudlin.
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Tom Waits The Heart Of Saturday Night (180 Gram) 2018 The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, originally released in 1974…
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Tom Waits - Blood Money LP (Opaque Red 180gram - 20th Anniv. Edition) Blood Money is etched. It's scratched out in bold, dark lines, with marimba, trumpet, and bass clarinet…
Alice is one of the most distinctive of all Waits' creations, occupying its own corner in the odd-angeld room that is Tom Waits' body of work. While there are familiar…
Closing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album…
Joe Coleman
A comprehensive monograph of the artist Joe Coleman, the "walking ghost of old America."
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Harry Lime
Thomas "Tom" Alan Waits, born on December 7th, 1949, Pomona, California, U.S., is a singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and actor, whose music is characterized by lyrics focusing on the underside…
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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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For voice and piano, with chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.
Tom Waite
IMAGINE DIVORCING YOUR CAR and house, marrying your bicycle, and then simply pedaling away. Waite’s done so and it’s been conjugal bliss. Of course, as in any marriage, there have…
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…
Tracks: "Alice," "No One Knows I'm Gone," "Table Top Joe," "We're All Mad Here," "I'm Still Here" and more!
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…
Bawlers, on the surface, is every bit as soothing as Brawlers is abrasive. But for all the gentle piano and brass embellishments, the mood is far from serene, inhabiting the…
Brawlers presents probably the best-known of Tom Waits' personalities, filled as it is with vocal cord damage, found percussion, old-timey arrangements, and cartoon-buzz lead guitar. It's also the disc that…
Collecting all the odd items that don't fall into a simple quiet-loud dichotomy, Bastards reveals Waits at his most theatrical, filled with weird spoken-word monologues, gypsy-opera arrangements, acapella experiments, and…
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered) Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks at the Diner…
Digitally remastered edition. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks at the Diner debuts some of Waits' greatest…
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his…
Rain Dogs is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York…
Pop/Rock Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos
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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(Music Sales America). Complete piano/vocal arrangements with chord diagrams of over 20 of this poet/songwriter/actor’s greatest hits including: Ol’ 55 * Jersey Girl * Shiver Me Timbers * and more.
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…
This is the latest release from Tom Waits in nearly 6 years and is possibly the most anticipated record in Tom Wait's 26-year career, according to MTV online. This album…
Artist and musician, Tom Waits new album, Blood Money is a must have for fans! Tracks: "Misery Is the River," "Coney Island Baby," "Lullaby," "Woe" and more!
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’ 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…
Corinne Kessel
Here, author Corinne Kessel pursues Waits into this distinctly murky and unsettled atmosphere to address in particular Waits’s enduring questions of reality, landscape, and identity. Also included are appendices listing…
