Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits
`I`ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I`ve got all three, and it`s never helped me`, Tom Waits. Born, seemingly, in the back of a taxi cab outside a hospital in California, in December 1949, the young Tom Waits graduated through the jobs of janitor, dishwasher and cook to the position of doorman at a small club. Existing on a diet of whiskey, cigarettes and beat writing, he now added folk and jazz to his formative influences. In 1969, Captain Beefheart manager Herb Cohen discovered him - and five years later he released his first album, Closing Time, a record soaked in equal parts bourbon and melancholy. His drunken bohemian persona kicked in after this (`The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not...
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012
