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Tag Archives: tom waits
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Tom Waits On 78 rpm Vinyl
On November 19th, Preservation Hall Recordings will release 504 limited edition hand-numbered 78 rpm vinyl records featuring two tracks by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with very special guest Tom Waits. Proceeds from the sale of this very special project … Continue reading
Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos Box
Kids, if you’re not into Tom Waits, I suggest you skip reading this entry altogether. If you are though — or if you like the way Sharl and I illustrate — you may want to read on.
Posted in Personal, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
Tagged illustration, musik & mythos, stagecraftentertainment, tom waits
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Tom Waits — Early TV Appearances
In the above clip, Tom Waits appears on Fernwood 2 Night, a parody talk show, hosted by Barth Gimble (Martin Mull) and sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard (Fred Willard), created by Norman Lear as a spin-off/summer replacement from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Heh Heh, Interview, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 1976, 1977, martin mull, mike douglas, tom waits, tv broadcast
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The Results Are In…
We will be emailing all seven winners shortly requesting their snail mail addy. Congrats to those who won, apologies to those who didn’t get picked… Regardless: thanks all for participating. It’s been a fun ride!
Posted in Community, In Writing, Music, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, giveaway, tom waits
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Musik & Mythos Giveaway!
Update: Contest closed! Winners to be announced shortly — stay tuned… Now that the book is finally up for sale, Sharl and I are giving away: A/ one copy of Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos, the book, along with one … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Music, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, contest, free stuff, illustration, tom waits
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The Tom Waits Book Has Materialized
You’ll remember my going on and on about the Tom Waits book Sharl and I illustrated. Ah, well a couple of days ago we finally got our copy: The front- and back-cover with some of the postcards. Some more postcards. … Continue reading
Posted in In Writing, Music, Personal, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, collage, illustration, tom waits
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Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos
It took our pal Tommi Brem and his associate Daniel Knapp two years to translate Jay S. Jacob’s Tom Waits biography, “Wild Years: the Music and Myth of Tom Waits”, into German — Tommi at one point likened it to … Continue reading
Posted in In Writing, Miscellany, Personal, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, illustration, tom waits
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3 from Rain Dogs (live)
What is it about the music and lyrics of Tom Waits that popular culture has clung to so heartily? Has he touched upon something deep within our common unconscious, like some dimestore novel from which we are all characters? And … Continue reading