All of the clips of Tom Waits in the Irish documentary entitled: "Freedom Highway - Songs That Shaped a Century/ Songs of Resistance and liberation". The documentary is described as "A journey through the great political songs of time using a combination of contemporary and archive footage and featuring performances and interviews with political singers and activists alike."
It was made for RTE, the BBC, the Irish Film Board and ARTE. Directed by Philip King (Hummingbird Productions, 2001). First Screening: January 2001, TV Arte/ RT�. Interview and performs "I Know I've Been Changed" and "I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More" (solo on banjo). These recordings were later used in his 2006 album 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards'.
Philip King (2004): "Tom Waits walked into the room with the barn door and he threw it onto the ground and he threw a chair on it and he sat up on it. And the door creaked and the chair creaked and he threw that tambourine into the door and he put his foot on it and a banjo in his hand and he said: 'I'm ready'. I knew he was ready, but I wasn't ready. Because his voice was like a whirlwind that just blew me across the room when he started to sing. He was consumed by the act of doing what he was doing... It's at those times that you feel the five-year wait is worth it. The 117 phone calls were worth it. The cajoling, the knocking on the door, the inevitable rejection, which is a constant part of this work, is worth it." (Source: "Philip King tells Shane Hegarty about recording Tom Waits" The Irish Times. October 29, 2004)
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Link to full documentary: • FREEDOM HIGHWAY
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