Track Lounge: Hoist That Rag
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Tom Waits started out in the early 1970s as a piano-based barroom balladeer with a penchant for beat poetry and West Coast jazz. By the late '80s he had mutated into a brilliantly adventurous artist whose style suggested an amalgam of Howlin' Wolf, Kurt Weill, and Captain Beefheart. Ever the theatrical figure, Waits also found success as an actor in several films. He's also worked on numerous theatrical/musical projects with avant-garde theater king Robert Wilson. Though generally regarded as...Read More >
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with the advent of the illegal, downloadable mp3 it became a lot easier to get sick of music. sometimes i hate everything in my itunes library.
then... i listen to tom waits. because i hated him already.
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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 have had the fortune to see Mr. Waits once before - in Florence, Italy in 1999 ... MORE
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1Yeh, it'd great if people actually toured at little bit more up here in Montana. You have to either travel Salt Lake city, or Portland/Seattle.
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