Tom Waits | A Greatest Singer

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Known for his distinctive deep gravelly singing voice, his lyrics are characterized by their focus on characters living on the underside of U.S. society. His early music during the 1970s was primarily in the jazz genre, but later work moved towards blues, vaudeville, and experimental music,More info:wiki

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#10   Looking back at Tom Waits’ first seven albums,More info:thenational

Talking to Mojo back in 2004, Tom Waits was typically playful when discussing his unorthodox approach to music-making. “I break a lot of eggs,” he quipped. “And I leave the shell in there. Texture is everything.”

Perennially cool and gruff of voice, Waits, now 68, has done a fine job preserving his mystique. It helps that he’s been fastidiously uncooperative with biographers – and always resisted the use of his music in advertisements.

Today sees Anti, the indie label Waits signed to at 50, release remasters of the first seven studio albums he made for Elektra Asylum Records between 1973 and 1980. Although Waits’s reputation as a true maverick wasn’t cemented until the release of his 1983 record Swordfishtrombones, his Asylum years are full of great songs.

Waits grew-up loving the sci-fi TV drama The Twilight Zone and the work of Beat writers such as Kerouac and Bukowski. Musically, he loved the rhythm and blues of Wilson Pickett, the balladry of Roy Orbison and much more besides, but it was the jazz great Thelonious Monk who inspired Waits to gravitate towards piano.

His songs could be seedy, romantic or blackly comic, and were typically peopled by freaks, outsiders and other characters down on their luck. As all-seeing narrator, Waits came to personify a kind of barfly musician. He painted a stunning portrait of tentative, last-orders romance in I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You (below), the stand-out from his 1973 debut Closing Time. Three years later, on 1976’s Small Change, the character who sings The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) is clearly playing for laughs: Waits hits bum notes deliberately, blaming them on his inebriated instrument.

#9    Role Models: Ben Nichols on Tom Waits,More info:americansongwriter

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Nichols is the frontman for Memphis alt-country band Lucero, who just released their first-ever live album, Live From Atlanta. Nichols has also recorded a solo EP titled The Last Pale Light in the West, which drew influence from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

I can’t tell you the first time I heard Tom Waits. It seems like he was a presence that had simply always existed. Kind of the way I always thought of him as older than he actually was. To me, he is just one of those fundamental elements that has always been and always will be. I’m sure he was part of the music I discovered between the ages of 12 and 15. Those years when I was too young to drive myself to the record store but old enough to know that music existed outside of what they played on the radio. Those years I was dependent upon mix tapes and late night cable TV. Whenever it was that I came across him, it was a life-changing event for me, whether I recognized it at the time or not.

#8    Tom Waits Is the Same Kind of Bad As You,More info:vulture

#7    GMTA TOM WAITS,More info:maya

#6   Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, N.W.A. Among 2018 Songwriters Hall Nominees,More info:grammy

#5   Tom Waits, his wife, John Prine receive songwriting awards,More info:samoaobserver

#4   Download Wallpapers 1280×1024 Tom Waits, Bristle, Hair, Look, Face … Desktop Background,More info:desktopbackground

#3    Tom Waits: his 25 best songs,More info:telegraph

#2   Tom Waits, Cotati, CA, February 4, 1999,More info:morrisonhotelgallery

#1    Tom Waits, Cotati, CA, 1992,More info:morrisonhotelgallery

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