Tom Waits releases his second — and my favorite — album, The Heart of Saturday Night, a kind of tribute to Jack Kerouac, on October 15, 1974 …
The Heart of Saturday Night
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Real Gone
October 3, 2004 ~ Tom Waits releases “Real Gone.”
It’s not my fav Waits album — it’s has its moments but it’s a hard listen. I think Amanda Petrusich nails in her review for Pitchfork. She’s speaking to the opening track “Top Of The Hill” but I think it pretty much sums up the whole album:
The song heaves on even when you think it should stop, growing increasingly breathless by the second, as if Waits really was lumbering uphill, begging you for a lift. And when you finally stop wincing, when you finally pull over and open the door– you grin and you dance.
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Rain Dogs turns 35
Small Change
Tom Waits releases his 4th album on September 21, 1976. If you’re a Waits fan and DON’T have this in your collection, just buy it.
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Bone Machine
Tom Waits releases #10 on September 8, 1992. The album’s co-written with his beau, Kathleen Brennan, and some friends show up to help in the studio — Keith Richards, Les Claypool, Waddy Wachtel and David Hidalgo. Jesse Dylan shot the classic album cover.
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Franks Wild Years
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Tom Waits releases not one but TWO albums on May 7, 2002. Blood Money and Alice are both used by playwright Robert Wilson for two productions.
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Mule VariationsÂ
Tom Waits celebrated Keith Richards birthday by writing a poem about him
“He once won the Hope Diamond in a poker game, and in the same night lost it in a game of craps”
Source: Tom Waits celebrates Keith Richards birthday by writing a poem about him
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Waits.
I always thought songs were movies for the ears and movies are like songs for the eyes.
Tom Waits
My favorite all around performance artist. He can write a wicked lyric, his acting is highly under-rated and his sense of humor is priceless. Happy birthday …
