Innocent When You Dream The Tom Waits Reader

by Montandon, Mac; Black, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781560256670
• ISBN10: 1560256672
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-15
• Publisher: Da Capo

Summary

Over the past three decades, Tom Waits has achieved the kind of top-shelf cult status most artists only dream about. In his varied career, he has acted alongside Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Lily Tomlin; his songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Sarah McLachlan, the Eagles, and the Ramones; he's won two Grammys, a Golden Globe, and been nominated for an Oscar; he's coined unforgettable phrases like "better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" and "champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends"; and he's made anyone who's ever listened to his music just that much cooler. Here is Tom Waits in all his mischievous splendor. From a New Yorker "Talk of the Town" in 1976 to an interview by Terry Gilliam in 1999; from album reviews by Luc Sante and David Fricke to conversations with Elvis Costello and Roberto Benigni; from a recent profile in GQ to "20 Questions" in Playboy and reviews of Waits's acclaimed new album, Real Gone, this is the must-have book for every fan of the artist Beck has described as a "luminary," and for music fans everywhere.

Author Biography

Mac Montandon is the editor of Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader. He has written for the New York Times, Radar, Salon.com, and Interview. He lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY FRANK BLACK	xv
INTRODUCTION BY MAC MONTANDON	xix
PART ONE THE EARLY YEARS: AN EMOTIONAL WEATHER REPORT
THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT PRESS RELEASE
Tom Waits
1974	3	(2)
THE SLIME WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
Clark Peterson
CREEM, March 1978	5	(3)
SWEET AND SOUR
Betsy Carter with Peter S. Greenberg
Newsweek, June 14, 1976	8	(3)
WATCH OUT FOR SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS WEARING BELL BOTTOMS WHO ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME AND HAVE A LOT OF BLUE OYSTER CULT RECORDS UNDER THEIR ARM
Peter O'Brien
ZigZag, July 1976	11	(9)
BLUES
James Stevenson
The New Yorker, December 27, 1976	20	(4)
SMELLIN' LIKE A BREWERY, LOOKIN' LIKE A TRAMP
David McGee
Rolling Stone, January 1977	24	(8)
THE DON LANE SHOW
Channel Nine, April 1979	32	(11)
NOT SO MUCH A POET, MORE A PURVEYOR OF IMPROVISATIONAL TRAVELOGUE
Todd Everett
New Musical Express, November 29, 1975	43	(6)
WAITS AND DOUBLE MEASURES
Johnny Black
London Trax, March 18, 1981	49	(8)
TOM WAITS
Geoffrey Himes
The Washington Post, October 29, 1979	57	(2)
ONE FOR THE SHOESHINE MAN
Charles Bukowski
Black Sparrow Press, 1977	59	(6)
PART TWO THE MIDDLE YEARS: A JOCKEY FULL OF BOURBON
TOM WAITS MAKES GOOD: ROCK'S SCAVENGER SONGWRITER HAS BECOME A LEGEND IN HIS OWN SPARE TIME
Robert Sabbag
Los Angeles Times Magazine, February 22, 1987	65	(10)
TOM WAITS FOR NO MAN
Glenn O'Brien
SPIN, November 1985	75	(14)
WAITS NEVER LETS GUARD DOWN
Craig Maclnnis
The Toronto Star, October 7, 1987	89	(2)
TOM WAITS IS FLYING UPSIDE DOWN (ON PURPOSE)
Mark Rowland
Musician magazine, October 1987	91	(29)
SUMMIT TALK: EAVESDROPPING ON ELVIS COSTELLO AND TOM WAITS
Elvis Costello
Option, July 1989	120	(24)
TOM WAITS
Brian Brannon
Thrasher, February 1993	144	(4)
20 QUESTIONS
Steve Oney
Playboy, March 1988	148	(11)
THE FIRE (AND FLOOD) THIS TIME
Steve Pick
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 25, 1992	159	(3)
A MELLOWER PRINCE OF MELANCHOLY
Adam Sweeting
The Guardian, September 15, 1992	162	(5)
TOM WAITS MEETS JIM JARMUSCH
Jim Jarmusch
Straight No Chaser, October 1992	167	(40)
PART THREE THESE DAYS: COME ON U P TO THE HOUSE
TOM WAITS JOINS INDIE EPITAPH FOR MULE SET
Bradley Bambarger
Billboard, March 20, 1999	207	(5)
THE VARIATIONS OF TOM WAITS; OR: WHAT DO LIBERACE, RODNEY DANGERFIELD, AND A ONE-ARMED PIANIST HAVE IN COMMON?
Robert Wilonsky
Dallas Observer, May 6, 1999	212	(13)
GONE NORTH: TOM WAITS, UPCOUNTRY
Robert Lloyd
LA Weekly, April 23, 1999	225	(19)
ROMANCE IN TALL TALES OF DRIFTERS AND DRUNKS
Jon Pareles
The New York Times, September 27, 1999	244	(3)
SEWERS OF BUDAPEST
Luc Sante
The Village Voice, May 12, 1999	247	(5)
THE RESURRECTION OF TOM WAITS
David Fricke
Rolling Stone, June 24, 1999	252	(9)
HOLDING ON: A CONVERSATION WITH TOM WAITS
Karen Schoemer
Newsweek, April 23, 1999	261	(11)
WAITS: GUTHRIE'S HEIR?
Gene Santoro
The Nation, May 24, 1999	272	(5)
THE POOR SOLDIER GETS THOSE PROLETARIAN LOVESICK BLUES
Robert Wilson and Peter Laugesen
The Independent, November 19, 2000	277	(5)
IN THE WORDS OF WAITS
Steve Packer
The Weekend Australian, March 27, 2004	282	(7)
NO TOM LIKE THE PRESENT
Rob Brunner
Entertainment Weekly, June 21, 2002	289	(3)
THE MAN WHO HOWLED WOLF
Jonathan Valania
Magnet, June July 1999	292	(19)
IT'S LAST CALL SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD
Jonathan Valania
Magnet, October-November 2004	311	(22)
PLAY IT LIKE YOUR HAIR'S ON FIRE
Elizabeth Gilbert
GQ June 2002	333	(21)
FRESH AIR INTERVIEW
Terry Gross
National Public Radio, WHYY, May 2002	354	(9)
THE ONION INTERVIEW
Keith Phipps
The Onion, May 29, 2002	363	(14)
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
Vanity Fair, November 2004	377	(3)
NIRVANA
Charles Bukowski
Black Sparrow Press, 1992	380	(5)
TIMELINE AND DISCOGRAPHY	385	(4)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	389	(2)
CREDITS	391