Tag: Tom Waits
Hot on the heels of the Bob Dylan map that dropped last year, here’s a Tom Waits map, marking the mentioned in the majestic weirdo’s work. New York gets a lot of love, with shout-outs in “Clap Hands,” “Fish in the Jailhouse,” “Downtown Train,” and of course, “Coney Island Baby,” among others. A quick perusal reveals […]
Tom Waits, your favorite inimitable creaky crooner, is publishing a very special, very exclusive, very limited-edition collaborative book with photographer/singer Anton Corbijn, dubbed “Waits/Corbijn.” Only 6,600 copies will be available on May 8th. The Waits/Corbijn will feature 30 years of Tom Waits being very Tom Waits, spanning 272 pages of Corbijn portraits. Also, there’ll be Waits’ […]
This one is almost too meta: the poet laureate of nighthawks and renegades everywhere teams up with Captain Jack Sparrow’s father to record a cover of a 150-year old sea shanty. But it’s real! And it’s awesome. Frequent collaborators Tom Waits and Keith Richards recently recorded a stirring version of “Shenandoah,” a beautiful mid-19th-Century folk song. […]
