(Music Sales America). A tender song-cycle loosely based on a stage production about Alice Liddell, the young girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Arranged for piano, voice and guitar, with lyric sheets and artwork. Includes: Alice * Table Top Joe * Watch Her Disappear * I'm Still Here * a[...]

Tom Waits may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: 'the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.' He is also a shape-shifter who, over a span of almost four decades, has restlessly transformed his song-writing and persona not to suit the times but his own whims. Along with Bob Dylan, he stands a[...]

Tom Waits's distinctive, bourbon-soaked growl, his unique persona, and his incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an extraordinary critical respect. The idea of the Wanderer - someone who seeks an escape from all o[...]

Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't worki[...]

Tom Waits (s. 1949 Pomonassa, Kaliforniassa) on arvoituksellinen keskustelukumppani, jota haastatellessa mielen on oltava avoinna seikkailuihin. Yhtäkkiä asiallinen keskestelu saattaa nimittäin vieriä kurvissa valtatieltä syrjään, hylätyn ladon tai löyhkäävän kaatopaikan taakse. Siellä [...]