I've probably been thru 36 Tom Waits fazes since I first discovered his three eighties albums at a College party in 1988. Once he swims in your blood it's never the same again.
I stumbled upon Rain Dogs back in 1985 and listened to it on repeat for a week. Then I went out and bought all his previous records. Been a devoted fan ever since.
I've always been proud of the fact that my father exposed me to all sorts of music. From The Beatles to Frank Zappa to Hank Williams to Men at Work, he listened to almost everything. I say almost because I had never heard of Tom Waits as a musician and thought he was just an actor. It wasn't until my 30's did I discover his music and my life has never been the same. I am baffled that my father, with all the great music he listened to, does not have a single Tom Waits record. I now have them all.
Thank you for uploading and please correct the title of the video. Make It Rain has gotten me through the worst parts of my life. It deserves to be there.
Proper cologne is made from a room full of boys playing and the shoes stink worse than what anybody could imagine. Think...now please if you don't want to barf in public. Think 5 teenage boys and all shoes are off in a room that is sealed off. As a responsible parent I would check in to talk about hunger and if the situation down below required a full or a half pyrex pan of lasagna.
@@termsofusepolice I assume you are referring to his singing cause I know a lot of white people that talk like him. His speaking voice is what happens after a thousand cigarettes. If you defines waits as a minstrel show because he was influenced by blk singers, are you similarly defining The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Animals as minstrel shows? They were all influenced by black singers. The difference between a minstrel show and a singer is a minstrel show copies the likeness of a blk person and mocks it/disrespects. A singer isn’t necessarily copying the likeness of a blk person, only merely a VOICE or a SOUND, and the singer happens to be blk, which is secondary and not a consideration. The minstrel shows copies the qualities of a blk person to convey their likeness. A singer like waits copies a blk person to convey a sound, a vocal style. It has nothing to do with racism or condescending, mocking.
He obviously takes influence from black music, especially to the likes of Screaming Jay Hawkins. But to call it blackface, is crazy. No one said that about Jim Morrisons blues
