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Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits
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Tom Waits: • Born December 7, 1949 in Pomona
California.• Singer song-writer, musician, actor, and
composer.• Lives with wife Kathleen Brennan and their
three children.• 63 years old and still performing strong.
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Musical Persona:• Genre: Blues, jazz, parlor ballads,
vaudeville, rock and EXPERIMENTAL.• Instruments: Piano, guitar, percussion,
and vocals.• Distinctive voice: “like it was soaked in
a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car”—Daniel DurchHolz/Rolling Stone magazine
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhWuPTBIfo
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Band and accompanying instruments:
• Standard: Electric guitars, keys, stand-up bass, drums, percussion, tenor sax.
• Supplemental: Banjo, accordion, harp, bag-pipes, bull-horn, bowed saw, harmonica, conundrum, organs, hand-bells, shakers, theremin, and you name it……..
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Trademark:• One of a kind character and versatile • Multi talented entertainer (actor, produces
musical theatre, writes books, comedian) • Well known for his conventional ballads• Uses 12 Bar Blues form (traditional and non)• Fusing of genres• Lyric content: Under-belly of American life
(beautiful losers, nighthawks, boozers, grifters, drifters, dreamers, con men and the portrayal of seedy characters).
• High energy output/explosive performances• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7JZUpaVPg
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Major Influences:• Tin Pan Alley• George Gershwin• James Brown• Bessie Smith• Ray Charles• Bob Dylan• Louis Armstrong• Thelonious Monk• Howlin’ Wolf• Muddy Waters• Billie Holiday• Johnny Cash• Frank Sinatra
• Beat Generation• Jack Kerouac• Charles Bukowski• Lord Buckley
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Artists covering Waits songs:
• Johnny Cash• Eagles• Bruce Springsteen• Neville brothers• Tori Amos• Nora Jones• Rod Stewart• Steve Earle• Robert Plant • Allison Krauss• Blind Boys of
Alabama• Sarah MacLachlan• Screaming Jay
Hawkins• Solomon Burke• Elvis Costello• Bob Seger• Les Claypool• Ramones
-VH1 declared him, “one of the most influential artists of all time.”-Recorded with many artists such as Hank Williams III, Les Claypool, Teddy Edwards, Blind Boys Alabama, Bette Middler and more…….
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24 Albums (1973-2011)
Closing Time -1973
Heart Of Saturday Night -1974
Night hawks at the Diner -1975
Small Change -1976
Foreign Affair -1977
Heart-attack And Vine -1980
Bounced Checks-1981
Blue Valentine-1978
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One From the Heart: Soundtrack
-1982
Swordfish Trombones-1983
Franks Wild Years-1987
Big Time-1989
Bone Machine-1990
Night On Earth: Soundtrack -1992
The Black Rider -1993
Rain Dogs-1985
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Mule Variations-1999
Used Songs-2001
Blood Money-2002
Alice-2002
Real Gone-2004
Orphans-2006
Glitter and Doom-2009
Bad Ass Me-2011
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Musical Theatre:
• “Black Rider”(successful run at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago)
• “Blood Money”• “Alice in Wonderland”• “Franks Wild Years”1990
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Acting Career:• Coffee and Cigarettes• Dracula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaVZmo8CsGQ
• Down by Law• The Imaginarium of Dr.
Parnassus• Fisher King• Iron Weed• Book of Eli• Produced several sound
tracks• (2014) Pinocchio (director
Guillermo Del Toro)
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Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 14, 2011. The
ceremony was held at the Waldorf Astoria.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72GDj7svq4
Tom Waits living legend—musical genius
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References:
"Tom Waits Biography." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. n.d. n. page. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. <http://rockhall.com/inductees/tom-waits/bio/>.
"Tom Waits." Rolling Stone Artists. n.d. n. page. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/tom-waits/biography>.
"Tom Waits Biography." Sing365. n.d. n. page. Web. 12 Dec. 2012. <http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Tom-Waits-Biography/4E0D557FC6DA695248256974002C0F8B>.
"Tom Waits." Anti. n. page. Web. 12 Dec. 2012. <http://www.tomwaits.com/albums/