Tom Waits
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CD review: Tom Waits comes aliveBy ANDREW DANSBY Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle The roar that greets Tom Waits at the outset of this live album isn't something you'd hear at one of his shows in the 1970s. Waits has found an unlikely tenure, the rare artist over 50 (he... In this article: Tom Waits, DIRT, Big Time, Houston Chronicle, and Germany |
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Kansas City Star | 4 days ago
Tom Petty, Tom Waits go live on new releases
...and the MGs' "Green Onions" and James Brown's "Good, Good Lovin'. " Also available in seven vinyl LPs. Tom Waits | "Glitter and Doom Live": Waits has released live albums before: "Nighthawks at the Diner" in 1975 and "Big Time" in 1988. The...
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The State | 6 days ago
Indie artists Waits, Bjork come to MySpace Music
In this article: Bjork, Joint venture, Beggars Group, News Corp., Epitaph, and Los Angeles
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AP Online | 6 days ago
Indie artists Waits, Bjork come to MySpace Music
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Independent label artists Bjork and Tom Waits are coming to MySpace Music. The joint venture between the News Corp. social networking site and major recording companies said Monday it signed a deal with London-based...
In this article: Bjork, Joint venture, Beggars Group, News Corp., Epitaph, and Los Angeles
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San Francisco Chronicle | 6 days ago
Indie artists Waits, Bjork come to MySpace Music
In this article: Bjork, Joint venture, and News Corp.
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 6 days ago
Album review: Glitter And Doom, Tom Waits
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Rolling Stone | 6 days ago
Tom Waits - Glitter And Doom Live
RS: 3.5of 5 Stars Director Terry Gilliam recently cast Tom Waits as Satan; what better role for this seductively jive-talking fallen angel? Waits' second live retrospective plumbs his later LPs, especially 1992's Bone Machine and 2004's...
In this article: Terry Gilliam, Bone Machine, and Real Gone
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Boing Boing | 6 days ago
Tom Waits live: Glitter and Doom - a darkly inspiring CD
...winner. Waits is one of my favorite recording artists and an even better performer. This album amply demonstrates why a Tom Waits concert ticket is worth anything they want to charge for it, as old favorites like "Singapore" are brought...
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Independent.co.uk - Music | November 20, 2009
Album: Tom Waits, Glitter & Doom Live, (Anti-)
In his earlier years, all Tom Waits needed to animate a live show was a piano and a standard lamp, the latter casting a suitably sepulchral gloom over his rough-hewn crooning. In those days, he was most renowned as a lyricist who had helped...
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Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Lyrically, Waits's songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places – although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists—for example, "Jersey Girl," performed by Bruce Springsteen; "Downtown Train" performed by Rod Stewart; and "Ol' '55," performed by the Eagles. Although Waits's albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.
Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and their three children.
- Name At Birth:
- Thomas Alan Waits
- Birth Date:
- December 07, 1949
- Occupation:
- Singer-songwriter, Musician, Actor, Composer
- Instrument Played:
- Piano, guitar, vocals
- Guitar, keyboards, drums, bass, percussions, Vocals
- Record Label:
- Asylum, ANTI-, Island
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