Innocent When You Dream

The Tom Waits Reader

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Paperback | 1 June 2005 | Edition Number 1

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The first collection of writings about Tom Waits -- interviews, profiles, conversations, and more -- spanning the artist's thirty-year career in music, film and theater

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 NewYorker "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 poems by Charles Bukowski that perfectly captures the Waitsian world, this is the must-have book for every fan of the artist Beck has described as a "luminary," and for music fans everywhere.

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Foreword
Introduction
The early years : an emotional weather report
The heart of Saturday night press release	p. 3
The slime who came in from the cold	p. 5
Sweet and sour	p. 8
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	p. 11
Blues	p. 20
Smellin' like a brewery, lookin' like a tramp	p. 24
The Don Lane show	p. 32
Not so much a poet, more a purveyor of improvisational travelogue	p. 43
Waits and double measures	p. 49
Tom Waits	p. 57
One for the shoeshine man	p. 59
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	p. 65
Tom Waits for no man	p. 75
Waits never lets guard down	p. 89
Tom Waits is flying upside down (on purpose)	p. 91
Summit talk : eavesdropping on Elvis Costello and Tom Waits	p. 120
Tom Waits	p. 144
20 questions	p. 148
The fire (and flood) this time	p. 159
A mellower prince of melancholy	p. 162
Tom Waits meets Jim Jarmusch	p. 167
These days : come on up to the house
Tom Waits joins indie Epitaph for mule set	p. 207
The variations of Tom Waits; or : what do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and a one-armed pianist have in common?	p. 212
Gone north : Tom Waits, upcountry	p. 225
Romance in tall tales of drifters and drunks	p. 244
Sewers of Budapest	p. 247
The resurrection of Tom Waits	p. 252
Holding on : a conversation with Tom Waits	p. 261
Waits : Guthrie's heir?	p. 272
The poor soldier gets those proletarian lovesick blues	p. 277
In the words of Waits	p. 282
No Tom like the present	p. 289
The man who howled wolf	p. 292
It's last call somewhere in the world	p. 311
Play it like your hair's on fire	p. 333
Fresh Air interview	p. 354
The Onion interview	p. 363
Proust questionnaire	p. 377
Nirvana	p. 380
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