Drinking is a subject that is part of the common experience of songwriters and music fans alike. The relationship between artists and the demon booze is often a troubled one, but one that cannot be ignored. Here's our list of some of the most memorable drinking songs by the like of Tom Waits, Grandaddy...more here.
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“Why wouldn’t Preservation Hall do a project with Tom Waits?” mused Ben Jaffe, musical director and son of Preservation Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, in a 2006 piece on the post-Katrina New Orleans music scene in the NY Times.U2’s the Edge...
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Anti is offering apreview of the new Tom Waits album, Glitter and Doom Live, arriving November 24th. Check out the first 8 songs for free, including a roaring version of "Get Behind the Mule" and a slinky reinvention of "Singapore," and if you love the album as much pre-order it HERE. CD and LP include as a bonus the 35 minute disc/track "Tom Tales," compiling between‐song banter from througho.
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Remember when I told you about Tom Waits preparing to release a live cd of his Glitter & Doom tour? Well, you can take the next step towards hearing the whole thing by clicking on this link to tomwaits.com and giving up your email. As a reward, Tom and co. will give you the option of listening to any of the 8 tracks chosen from the 17 song collection for free. Unless you think of giving out an ...
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One of our greatest living songwriters, Tom Waits, is set to release a live document of his 2008 tour. Glitter and Doom Live features 17 tracks from the tour and will be released on November 24th. A second CD entitled Tom Tales will feature over 40 minutes of Waits' famous musings on all sort of topics. The track list for the set is: Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down (Birmingham - 07/03/08)
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Drinking is a subject that is part of the common experience of songwriters and music fans alike. The relationship between artists and the demon booze is often a troubled one, but one that cannot be ignored. Here's our list of some of the most memorable drinking songs by the like of Tom Waits, Grandaddy...more here.
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Somewhere…there’s a couple who started the growing tradition of assembling, burning and distributing mix CDs as keepsakes at weddings. So much for matchbooks as marriage mementos.The first wedding CD that I encountered was handed out about five years ago when my longtime fellow nightclub habitué Shannon married her beau Michael. They gave out discs that featured music played during the ceremo
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Eerie but captivating melody matched with nearly hymn-like lyrics and Waits' rasp make this worth repeated listenings. Used as the theme for the HBO series "The Wire". In season 8 a version was produced by an amateur Baltimore group called "Domaje" which is both sublime and unavailable anywhere. So if anyone has any leads please let me know. Unti then, this version by Mr. Waits is well worth th...
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Tom Waits eh? He crazy. I tried singing like Tom Waits; I can do it, but only for one song. Listen to Come On Up To The House, it's very wonderful.
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I have to re post these thoughts on one of the last concerts I attended. I write this disclaimer that there possibly is not a bigger Tom Waits fan than I. I own every album, many bootlegs, and have had the good fortune to see him in concert twice. This was posted as more of a reply to many of the salivating fanboys on another blog:I have to say I was a little disappointed - only because I ha...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat grieves for Andy Warhol.As a desheveled, strung out Basquiat watches old home movies of Warhol, the music of Tom Waits in this scene says more than any dialouge ever could.Tom Waits - 'Tom Traubert's Blues' MP3~~
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Tom Waits played a two hour set spanning though his 20 album catalog at Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, Arizona last night. It iss the first of 28 dates Waits will play in the United States and Europe.For a blow by blow of the show last night, CLICK HERE The below video is footage of a special press conference where Tom explains the tour and the speiclal meaning behind Pehdtsckjmba. Tom W...
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No lie. Tom Waits just released this important press conference in what appears to be designed as a video for youtube release, spread virally through the tentacles of the interweb....
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Somewhere…there’s a couple who started the growing tradition of assembling, burning and distributing mix CDs as keepsakes at weddings. So much for matchbooks as marriage mementos.The first wedding CD that I encountered was handed out about five years ago when my longtime fellow nightclub habitué Shannon married her beau Michael. They gave out discs that featured music played during the ceremo
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A very insightful interview Tom Waits conducted with, well, Tom Waits was recently published online. In it we discover some of the deeper personal meanings behind some of his songs, a list of some of the most influential artists upon his life and why, as well as just the general tomfoolery we've grown to expect from Waits. I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumors and so much...
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