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Tom Waits
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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Waits
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…
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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.
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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…
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…
Joe Coleman
A comprehensive monograph of the artist Joe Coleman, the "walking ghost of old America."
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Tom Layton
'We had a vision of Locarno Grove as this idyllic place where people lounged around in hammocks drinking cocktails out of coconut shells and listening to the waves lapping against…
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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…
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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For voice and piano, with chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.
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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…
Pop/Rock Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos
(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.
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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Matt Mahurin
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…
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…
Barney Hoskyns
The exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Jay S. Jacobs
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…
Perseus
The first collection of writings about Tom Waits-spanning the artist’s thirty-year career in music, film, and theatre-and featuring the most revealing, bizarre, provocative, and hilarious interviews, profiles, reviews, and conversations…
