Year: 1983 (LP 1991)
Label: Antrop Records (USSR), Рџ91 00085
Style: Pub Rock, Rock
Country: December 7, 1949 Pomona, California, U.S.
Time: 41:56
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 232 Mb
Tom
Waits, in full Thomas Alan Waits, (born December 7, 1949, Pomona,
California, U.S.), American singer-songwriter and actor whose gritty,
sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won
him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and
prominent musicians who performed and recorded his songs.
Born into a
middle-class California family but enamoured of the bohemian lifestyle
depicted in Beat literature, Waits lived in his car and in seedy Los
Angeles hotels as he embarked on his career. His raspy vocals, delivered
in his signature growl, evoked the late-night atmosphere of the smoky
clubs in which he first performed in the late 1960s. Drawing on jazz,
blues, pop, and avant-garde rock music, he combined offbeat
orchestrations with his own piano and guitar playing and
stream-of-consciousness lyrics that reflected the influence of writers
Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski.
Although Waits’s albums found
considerable commercial success in Britain beginning in the mid-1980s,
even his best-selling albums—Small Change (1976) and Heartattack and
Vine (1980)—failed to crack the American Top 40. His songs, however,
have been recorded by the Eagles (“Ol’ 55”), Bruce Springsteen (“Jersey
Girl”), and Rod Stewart (“Downtown Train”). He also scored films,
cowrote the stage musical Frank’s Wild Years (which premiered in 1986),
and collaborated with writer William S. Burroughs and theatre director
Robert Wilson on another musical, The Black Rider (1990). Waits’s 1992
release Bone Machine, typical of his increasingly experimental musical
efforts in the 1990s, won a Grammy Award for best alternative music
album. His 1999 album, Mule Variations, was also much praised and took
the Grammy for best contemporary folk album.
Later albums included
Blood Money (2002), Alice (2002), Real Gone (2004), and Orphans:
Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (2006), a sprawling collection of 56
songs. In 2009 Waits released Glitter and Doom, a series of live
recordings from his 2008 concert tour. Waits’s first studio release
since 2004, Bad as Me (2011), a collection of blues-tinged,
whiskey-soaked love songs, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
The
theatrical posturing of Waits’s live performances led in the 1980s to an
alternate career as a film actor, notably in Down by Law (1986). He
made further appearances in Dracula (1992), Mystery Men (1999), Coffee
and Cigarettes (2003), and Domino (2005). His saturnine features and
gravelly voice perfectly suited him to Mephistophelian roles, and he
deployed these attributes to memorable effect as one of the “people in
charge” of purgatory in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) and as the
Devil himself in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). Waits later
appeared in The Old Man & the Gun, about a real-life group of bank
robbers known as the Over-the-Hill Gang, and The Ballad of Buster
Scruggs (both 2018), the Coen brothers’ ode to the Old West. He was then
cast in the zombie movie The Dead Don’t Die (2019).
(Encyclopaedia Britannica, Last Updated: Dec 3, 2020)
01. A1 Underground (02:02)
02. A2 Shore Leave (04:19)
03. A3 Johnsburg Illinois (01:36)
04. A4 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six (04:33)
05. A5 Town With No Cheer (04:29)
06. A6 In The Neighborhood (03:08)
07. A7 Just Another Sucker On The Vine (Instrumental) (01:45)
08. B1 Frank's Wild Years (01:54)
09. B2 Swordfishtrombone (03:09)
10. B3 Down, Down, Down (02:17)
11. B4 Dave The Butcher (Instrumental) (02:22)
12. B5 Soldier's Things (03:20)
13. B6 Gin Soaked Boy (02:27)
14. B7 Trouble's Braids (01:22)
15. B8 Rainbirds (Instrumental) (03:08)
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