I know I'm not the only Tom Waits fan here. NPR has an almost 2.5 hour recording of a concert he recently did in Atlanta as part of his current Glitter and Doom Tour. Enjoy!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92916923

Richard Wasserman

I have a bunch of people here saying thank you soooooo much for this post :)

Oh yea

woohoo... listening now.

Love me some Waits.
Am I the only one that thinks he gets better and better the more I listen?

woohoo... listening now.

Love me some Waits.
Am I the only one that thinks he gets better and better the more I listen?

Nop :p

Superb. Thanks for the 411...

Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just sent the link to a number of my friends.I'm a long time fan.

"There ain't no such thing as the devil
it's just God when he's drunk."

T.W

Thanks....Too cool!!!

Cheers,
Geary

Thanks for the link... will give it a listen when I have a few extra minutes.

gene

Oh wow! Thanks for the link. Just listened to the first song, great stuff! Will listen to the rest as soon as I can.

Righteous. The man is a great storyteller/songwriter/performer. Hope to see him live someday...

Just picked up this quote from Tom about the band he's touring with:

"They play with racecar precision and they are all true conjurers. I'm doing songs with them I've never attempted outside the studio. They are all multi-instrumentalists and they polka like real men."

Gotta love it!

Tom did a show in Seattle in the late 70's. The tickets cost $2.98 and the adds said, "This man is cheap." As an artist, he is his own man but I always see similarities with Kenneth Patchen, Richard Brautigan and, sometimes, Leonard Cohen.

Dan

OHHHH YEA!

Thank you Richard Wasserman

Glitter and Doom Tour. Enjoy!
Richard Wasserman

Richard,

THANK YOU!!
From Small Change to Orphans I've been a huge Waits fan.

I'm glad all of you are enjoying the performance! Tom Waits is the best...

Richard Wasserman

Thanks for the post. Tom has been one of my heroes for many years. Attached is my ticket stub from almost 30 years ago. Looking through my ticket album I see 1978/79 had some diverse concert experiences. Waits, Dylan, Bowie, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald, Maria Muldaur, Rodriguez, Leo Kottke, Elton John, Rockpile (Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds), Ralph McTell.

The staging of the concert was wonderful. Waits had one street lamp in the centre of stage as a prop and occasionally he would get up from the piano and lean against the post or do a little jig around it flipping his hat over his eyes and so on. Magic!

One of my favourite songs is Town with No Cheer from Swordfishtrombones which describes a train journey between Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia. You can see Waits' keen observational ears and eyes at work in the lyrics. Anyone who can weave Patterson's curse into a song (a noxious purple weed) is alright by me.

Be sure to snag a copy for your ipod (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=15842121).

All I have of Tom Waits is his "Closing Time" disk. That sounds *much* different than this concert. I totally dig on the concert!! Thanks for the link!

So, you fans.. what is the next essential album to buy?

Nighthawks at the Diner, my all time favorite. Loooovvveee it! Also Small Change, Raindogs. Everyone has their fave...

Be sure to snag a copy for your ipod (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=15842121).

Thanks, I was planning to look for just that link. Saved me some trouble. ;)

I've come to really appreciate the poetry in Small Change... but just about any Tom Waits album will do.

gene

"Day After Tomorrow" off of the Real Gone album is one of my favorites, also "Alice" from the Alice album. He makes pictures with words.

I've come to really appreciate the poetry in Small Change... but just about any Tom Waits album will do.

gene


Gene you devil, I never would have thought you were a Pasties and a G-String kind-a-guy.

Terry

Pick up Small Change, it's a lot of fun.
Erik