Posted on 01/12/2024 7:42:36 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
Here you go - Tom Waits at his best..
Pasties and a G String
Step Right Up
Emotional Weather Report
Brilliant artist.
Had a role in a movie, his songs about LA are great. Yes, brilliant...but only marginally.
Gavin Bryars With Tom Waits - Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (full album)
At first, this is so soft that you won’t hear anything but it is playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnq8OjH02U
“Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza. The loop was the singer’s recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn, by James M Black, published in 1911. Rich harmonies, comprising string and brass, are gradually overlaid over the stanza.”
Still better than NextRush.
BWAAAHAHAHAhaha!
There’s far, far worse daily spam
I don’t mind his stuff but that’s just me
Well we’re watching a vid on Keith Richards and Tom Waits is featured.
And for me - my intro to Tom Waits is Fernwood Tonight.
I watched this show religiously and was just blown away by this episode.
Barely there— drunk for real. Sad. Here’s a far better live of Tom doing Red Sovine’s classic trucker’s ghost story.
Best recitation of Red’s story...
For all those out on the road this cold night. Be well all.
Big Joe and Phantom 309:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYh9OdAAaCE
I’d rather a bottle in front’a me than a frontal labotomy . . . fell off my chair.
I could listen to that for days on end ...
Old 55. That was the song the described my life when I was 18. I still get chills when I hear it.
Brilliant indeed!
New Coat of Paint - “You wear a dress, baby, I’ll wear a tie
We’ll laugh at that old bloodshot moon in that burgundy sky.”
Bad Liver, Broken Heart - An alcoholic begins to wrestle with what his drunkenness has cost him, and wallows in self-pitying cliches.
I’m Still Here - 1:50 of pathos that could make a grown man cry, yet ends on a note of defiant hope.
Downtown Train -(regarding “all those Brooklyn girls”) “You raise your hand and they scatter like crows. They’re nothing that could ever capture your heart.”
Kudos to Martin Mull for bringing him to the interview chair
Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
Small Change
Invitation to the Blues
Step Right Up
Could go on all night.
Forgot one of my favorites - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Waits is a hard ticket to get, but always worth the effort.
The piano has been drinking not me.
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