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Lowside of the Road

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767927095
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Lowside of the Road written by Barney Hoskyns and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate between truth and self-fabricated legend. Lowside of the Road is the first serious biography to cut through the myths and make sense of the life and career of this beloved icon. Barney Hoskyns has gained unprecedented access to Waits’s inner circle and also draws on interviews he has done with Waits over the years. Spanning his extraordinary forty-year career from Closing Time to Orphans, from his perilous “jazzbo” years in 1970s LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this definitive biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step, album by album. Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the subject himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of rock’s great enigmas.

Wild Years

Author : Jay S Jacobs
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554902614
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Wild Years written by Jay S Jacobs and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller. Inspiration. Drunk. Visionary. Tom Waits is all of these things. Waits is the lifeline between the great Beat poets and today's rock & roll heroes. He's old enough to be your dad and cool enough to be your hero. One of the few truly original musicians recording today, he's also the rare singer who can actually act, and he has put together a respectable body of work in movies. Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits retraces the long road that Waits has traveled and explores the music that made him a legend. Jay S. Jacobs looks at the towering myth that Waits has created for himself. Jay S. Jacobs follows the fate of one of America's pre-eminent artists, a very private man whose career embodies a quirky array of fulfillment and loss, beauty and strangeness. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter, with insight on Waits' career in the 21st century thus far, as well as the most complete discography available in print. Tom's Wild Years ' a poignant, revealing celebration of the man and all his myths.

The Early Years

Author : Tom Waits
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Years written by Tom Waits and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works by the acclaimed American singer, songwriter, actor, and composer showcases lyrics from his first ten albums, from his first, Closing Time in 1973, to his experimental works from 1980 in Heartattack and Vine, and beyond. 40,000 first printing.

Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin

Author : Matt Mahurin
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356586
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin written by Matt Mahurin and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin This visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits. Having shot magazine portraits, album covers, and music videos of Waits, Mahurin was inspired to resurrect 100 dormant film negatives as a jumping off point to explore his own surreal, poetic, and occasionally dark vision. The images vary from traditional portraits to ones that capture Waits in concert—but the majority are richly imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician. In addition to the diverse images, the book includes a foreword by Waits, an essay by Mahurin on their longtime collaboration, and 20 original paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images inspired by Waits’s song titles.

Tom Waits on Tom Waits

Author : Paul Maher
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569769273
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Tom Waits on Tom Waits written by Paul Maher and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: &“the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.&” Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters. Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: &“Vocabulary is my main instrument;&” &“We all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;&” &“Anything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;&” &“Growth is scary, because you're a seed and you're in the dark and you don't know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;&” and &“There is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.&” Tom Waits on Tom Waits is 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.

The Many Lives of Tom Waits

Author : Patrick Humphries
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121251
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Tom Waits written by Patrick Humphries and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full length biography is the first comprehensive account of a truly legendary artist. It covers every aspect of the life and career of a man who has never seemed to be in the slightest danger of losing his credibility to mainstream success. With twenty albums to his credit and a legion of passionate fans, the uncompromising Waits continues to conjure up tender, ragged and magical songs that have attracted cover versions by artists as esteemed as Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Meat Loaf, The Ramones and Johnny Cash. Abrasive and single-minded, the gravel voiced singer/songwriter and occasional movie actor has followed one of the most unlikely career paths in popular music. Patrick Humphries' biography finally does this unique character justice with an in-depth critical overview of his life and work supplemented with authoritative discography and filmography.

Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones

Author : David Smay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441116788
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones written by David Smay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. But at his low point, he got the phone call that changed everything: Francis Ford Coppola tapped Tom to write the score for One From the Heart. Waits moved back to Los Angeles to work at Zoetrope's Hollywood studio for the next 18 months. He cleaned up, disciplined himself as a songwriter and musician, collaborated closely with Coppola, and met a script analyst named Kathleen Brennan - his "only true love". They married within 2 months at the Always and Forever Yours Wedding Chapel at 2am. Swordfishtrombones was the first thing Waits recorded after his marriage, and it was at Kathleen's urging that he made a record that conceded exactly nothing to his record label, or the critics, or his fans. There aren't many love stories where the happy ending sounds like a paint can tumbling in an empty cement mixer. Kathleen Brennan was sorely disappointed by Tom's record collection. She forced him out of his comfortable jazzbo pocket to take in foreign film scores, German theatre, and Asian percussion. These two stories of a man creating that elusive American second act, and also finding the perfect collaborator in his wife give this book a natural forward drive.

Innocent when You Dream

Author : Tom Waits
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780752881263
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Innocent when You Dream written by Tom Waits and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Waits in his own words: a collection of three decades' worth of interviews with Tom Waits 'I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me,' Tom Waits. Born, seemingly, in the back of a taxi cab outside a hospital in California, in December 1949, the young Tom Waits graduated through the jobs of janitor, dishwasher and cook to the position of doorman at a small L.A. club. Existing on a diet of whiskey, cigarettes and beat writing, he now added folk and jazz to his formative influences. In 1969, Captain Beefheart manager Herb Cohen discovered him - and five years later he released his first album, Closing Time, a record soaked in equal parts bourbon and melancholy. His drunken bohemian persona kicked in after this ('The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me'), and his familiar hoary rasp ('a voice that could guide ships through dense fog'), tales of losers, outsiders, hobos, dingy bar-room joints and seedy diners became the stuff of cult legend, covered by the likes of the Eagles, championed by Elton John, and instantly recognisable from a thirty-year career that has seeped through music (over 20 albums), theatre and film. Waits has never written an autobiography, has notoriously played fast and loose with the truth, but this collection of interviews is practically Tom Waits in his own words. Witty, enigmatic and currently fired up about the state of America (his latest album 'Real Gone' has been his most successful yet), Innocent When You Dream is a must-have for any Waits fan.

Hard Ground

Author : Tom Waits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Hard Ground written by Tom Waits and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Ground unites Michael O'Brien's compelling photographs and Tom Waits's powerful poetry to reveal our common humanity with the men, women, and children who survive on the street

The Words and Music of Tom Waits

Author : Corinne Kessel
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Words and Music of Tom Waits written by Corinne Kessel and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Waits's distinctive, bourbon-soaked growl, his unique persona, and his incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an extraordinary critical respect. The idea of the Wanderer - someone who seeks an escape from all of life's problems, and dreams himself into oblivion - serves as the fundamental personality type around which all Waits's music revolves. Ten years of producing and touring with Waits's macabre folktale adaptation across Canada and the U.S. has given author Corinne Kessel direct access to his work, creative process, and his associates. In this comprehensive analysis, Kessel examines all of the many characters that have appeared throughout the course of Waits' musical career, from Closing Time (1973) to Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. His raw form of expression and his evocative lyrics work together to form an emotional chronicle of society's misfits, outcasts, and lowlifes. He is not the sort of composer to chase after shiny red fire trucks to awesome blazing fires, but instead looks after the intangible dreams found dissipating in the last wisp of smoke from a cigarette, held in the weathered hands of a broken soul. 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.

Waits/Corbijn '77-'11

Author : Anton Corbijn
Publisher : Schirmer Mosel
ISBN 13 : 9783829605557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Waits/Corbijn '77-'11 written by Anton Corbijn and published by Schirmer Mosel. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waits/Corbijn '77-'11 is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that reaches bach more than 35 years, to those first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977. Waits' own photography, collected here for the first time under the title "Curiosities," gives a visual handle to the artistic intelligence millions of fans know only through his music.

Tom Waits

Author : Terry Staunton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560252641
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Tom Waits written by Terry Staunton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While his gravel-voiced, bohemian cataloging of America's underbelly has won him a dedicated following, Tom Waits's restless, idiosyncratic experimentation has led to comparisons with Ledbelly and Kurt Weill. Terry Staunton offers an authoritative overview of Waits's influence on his contemporaries, detailed biographical information, and an extensive discography.

Listen Up!

Author : Mark Howard
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773053477
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Listen Up! written by Mark Howard and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world’s most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound. Listen Up! is both production guide and exclusive backstage pass into the lives of some of the planet’s most iconic musicians. Writing with his brother Chris Howard, Mark Howard provides a rare glimpse into the normally invisible, almost secretive side of the music story: that of the producer and recording engineer.

Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour

Author : Sylvia Plachy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893813932
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour written by Sylvia Plachy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying disc contains the song "Serrano" composed and performed by Tom Waits.

Bette Midler & Tom Waits!

Author : Harry Lime
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244860509
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Bette Midler & Tom Waits! written by Harry Lime and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of society, delivered in his distinctively deep, gravelly voice. Waits mainly worked in jazz during the '70s but since the '80s his music has been more strongly influenced by blues, vaudeville, and experimental genres.

Last Chance Texaco

Author : Rickie Lee Jones
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218880X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Rickie Lee Jones and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and colorful memoir by the singer, songwriter, and “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time). This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song . . . Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner and Rickie Lee Jones in her own words (Hilton Als). It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, she takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, her years as a teenage runaway, her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs—“Chuck E’s in Love,” “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”—but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, and a pimp with a heart of gold, and tales of her fabled ancestors. This intimate memoir by one of the most trailblazing and tenacious women in music is filled with never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, whose songs defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades. “A striking, distinctive self-portrait.” —The New York Times “Terrific . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart . . . but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[The] premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation.” —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winner and author of White Girls

Tom Waits on Tom Waits

Author : Paul Maher
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845138279
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Tom Waits on Tom Waits written by Paul Maher and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Waits may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: ‘the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.’ He is also a shape-shifter who, over a span of almost four decades, has restlessly transformed his song-writing and persona not to suit the times but his own whims. Along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of American music’s last great mysteries. Hundreds of journalists have sought to crack the Waits code, but few have come close to piercing the myths that shroud him. Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty of his most intriguing interviews, the majority of which have never been collected in book form before. In each Waits shares something truly unique, delivering prose as crafted, poetic, potent and haunting as his best lyrics. Taken together they present a de facto autobiography of a notoriously guarded artist.