American Songwriter1 天
The Tom Waits Song Inspired by the Great American Poet, Charles Bukowski
Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski are literary brothers, and Waits' song "Franks Wild Years" is a testament to their shared ...
How to write a song like Tom Waits: “Beautiful melodies telling you terrible things”
A deep dive into the songwriting style of Tom Waits, guided by the man himself, as he explains the core elements of his craft ...
American Songwriter4 天
3 Eternal Songs From the Compelling Artist Tom Waits That Will Play Forever
When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits ...
Uncut8 年
Tom Waits: “I always thought songs lived in the air”
The last I see of Tom Waits as I pull out of the parking ... instruments had such a profound effect on Waits’ approach to music. It’s as if the warm beatnik/hippy spirit of San Francisco ...
Uncut8 年
Tom Waits: “I always thought songs lived in the air”
What is a fiasco? How do you steal someone’s thunder? What connects Keith Richards and the US Army? Why should you take a mallet into a hardware store? And what’s the secret of a great tomato ...
Moviefone4 年
Tom Waits Elephant Beer Blues Songs After Closing Time
June 1976 Denmark DR TV Studios Original Source PAL VHS Recording from a TV show transcripted to DVD Sange efter Lukketid translates to Songs after ... subtitled in Danish Tom is standing in ...
PunkNews14 年
Tom Waits providing songs for 'Richard III'
Tom Waits will be lending a few songs to a Dutch production of the Shakespeare play Richard III. Songs included in the show will be "Misery Is The River Of The World ...
Forbes1 年
Q&A: Serj Tankian On Composing, His Musical Roots, Tom Waits And More
Tankian: Mine too. Baltin: So, what’s the one Tom Waits song you wish you had written? Tankian: “Soldier's Things,” I love that f**king song, from Swordfishtrobomes. Every time I hear that ...
Hear Willie Nelson's Tom Waits Cover Ahead of Album That Finds Him ‘Facing Death With Grace'
One of the songs Nelson recorded ... Last Leaf on the Tree track list: 1. "Last Leaf" (by Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan) 2.
The punk rock mogul who saved Tom Waits from purgatory
Never mind that the name Tom Waits adorns the marquee, Kathleen Brennan is more than the moll of one of modern music’s most ...
Buffalo Rising6 年
ART’s Tom Waits inspired RAIN DOGS PROJECT now at Alleyway’s Cabaret space on Main ...
THE BASICS: THE RAIN DOGS PROJECT, seven one acts based on the music of Tom Waits, presented by American Repertory Theater of WNY, directed by Katherine Burkhart, Jack Kreuzer, and Nick Lama ...
The Financial Times24 天
Last Leaf on the Tree album review — Willie Nelson sings covers as if on a back porch ...
The title track is a Tom Waits song in which Nelson Sr sings the part of a leaf doggedly refusing to fall from a tree. “The autumn took the rest but it won’t take me,” he sings amid a gentle ...