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TOM WAITS About Life

Posted on March 17, 2024 by JL

17 March 2024

You shouldn’t have grown u as you once sang, Tom.

Happy 74 To TOM WAITS Who Knows Who The Devil Is

Posted on December 7, 2023 by JL

7 December 2023

Waits was born on 7 December 1949. Happy 74!

(Image: cover of his ‘Mule Variations’ album)

TOM WAITS About His Addiction

Posted on August 11, 2023 by JL

11 August 2023

Me 2.

UNCUT MAGAZINE – New Issue Out With TOM WAITS As Cover Star

Posted on August 10, 2023 by JL

10 August 2023

The stories of Tom Waits unusual studio antics are legendary.

“I was impressed by the amount of weirdo instruments he had hanging
around. It’s an amazing collection. I thought, ‘Hello!’ He had a Mellotron,
like an early version of the synthesiser, which was loaded entirely with
train noises.”

This revelation, incidentally, was shared with Uncut by none other than Keith Richards, who also tells about his long, predictably colourful friendship with Waits. Besides Richards’ warm and insightful recollections, there’s a deep dive into Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Frank’s Wild Years (1987).

Also features about Sinéad O’Connor, Duke Ellington, David Bowie and more.

This’ month’s free is 12-track one new tracks from Wilco, Teenage
Fanclub, Jaimie Branch, PG Six , Buddy & Julie Miller, Slowdive and more.

You can purchase a copy and let it be send tov your home address. Info HERE.

Amazing Album Artwork – TOM WAITS With His 8th LP ‘SWORDFISHTROMBONES’ 40 Years Ago (1983)

Posted on July 16, 2023 by JL

Eye-catching album artwork from the past

16 July 2023

Singular voice and songwriter TOM WAITS (now aged 73) released his
outstanding 8th LP, titled SWORDFISHTROMBONES 40 years ago, in 1983.

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AllMusic said: “Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.” Score: 5/5.

Artwork: A photograph by Michael E. Rush showing Waits with Angelo Rossitto (1908-1991) an American actor and voice artist who had dwarfism (2’11” / 89 cm) tall, and was often billed as Little Angie or Moe and Lee Kolima (1920-1995), also an actor who started his film career after being a professional wrestler in the 50s.

Kolima also appeared on Bob Dylan‘s album The Basement Tapes.

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TOM WAITS – ‘I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP’ 1992

Posted on April 12, 2023 by JL

12 April 2023

Artist: TOW WAITS
Born in Whittier, California 73 years ago
Active: Since 1969 / 17 studio LPs

Song/video: I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP
Album: Bone Machine (1992)

When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night
I don’t wanna grow up
Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right
I don’t wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That’s always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don’t wanna grow up
I don’t ever wanna be that way
I don’t wanna grow up

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TOM WAITS Released Debut Album ‘ CLOSING TIME’ 50 Years Ago – Anniversary Vinyl Edition In June

Posted on March 14, 2023 by JL

14 March 2023

Last week, 6 March, the magnific debut album CLOSING TIME
by the singing barfly legend TOM WAITS turned 50.

To celebrate an anniversary vinyl edition will be available from June 2 in
black and clear versions as a double 180g LP cut at 45 RPM with half-speed
mastering by London’s Abbey Road Studios. Pre-order info here.

Rolling Stone wrote 50 years again: “His voice is self-mocking, bordering on self-pity, and most of his songs could be described as all-purpose lounge music … a style that evokes an aura of crushed cigarettes in seedy bars and Sinatra singing “One for My Baby.” In both his songs and in his lazy, strolling piano playing, he parodies the lounge music sub-genre so perfectly that we wonder if he’s putting us on or if he’s for real, and it is his especial triumph that in the end he has it both ways: He is able to deliver whole both the truth and the sham of the music.”

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