thomas alan "tom" waits
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Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits. Tom Waits:. B orn 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. Musical Persona:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits
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.
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
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……..
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
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
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…….
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
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
Mule Variations-1999
Used Songs-2001
Blood Money-2002
Alice-2002
Real Gone-2004
Orphans-2006
Glitter and Doom-2009
Bad Ass Me-2011
Musical Theatre:
• “Black Rider”(successful run at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago)
• “Blood Money”• “Alice in Wonderland”• “Franks Wild Years”1990
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)
Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 14, 2011. The
ceremony was held at the Waldorf Astoria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72GDj7svq4
Tom Waits living legend—musical genius
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/