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Tom Waits (Music)

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 Influences:Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Charles Aznavour, Leonard Cohen, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Partch, Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, Captain BeefheartInfluenced:Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, Ramones, The The, Swans, The Pogues, Primus, The Tiger Lillies, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Sparklehorse, Eels, Modest Mouse, Calexico, Elbow, St. VincentDescribe Tom Waits here. Okay... but how? Well, everyone seems to use the cliched phrases like "whiskey-soaked", "gravelly-voiced", "barfly", "hobo", "raconteur", and "troubadour".With that out of the way, Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an innovative musician, generally classified as alternative but borrowing heavily from European and American folk music, Dark Cabaret, gospel, lounge music, pop, the blues, and occasionally country and even rap (he beatboxes on the 2004 album Real Gone and Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, and he appears on N.A.S.A's "Spacious Thoughts").His work can be divided into two distinct eras: his jazzy, lounge singer period, lasting from the '70s to the early '80s, and the reinvented, experimental sound of 1983's Swordfishtrombones album on, and his shift to a mysterious, Carnival-and-Sinister-Junkman persona. This shift was caused by his abandonment by Asylum Records, his breakup with Rickie Lee Jones and his marriage to his co-songwriter and muse Kathleen Brennan. Brennan introduced him to the music of Captain Beefheart, whose influence can be seen in "Swordfishtrombone" and later albums.He is known for his theatricality, dark and dense lyrical style, and a charming sense of humor - he's one of the few musicians that tend to get long interview sessions on late night talk shows, occasionally getting more laughs than the host. He wrote the scores of four musicals: "Franks Wild Years" [sic], written with Kathleen, and his collaborations with Robert Wilson, "The Black Rider", "Alice," "Woyzeck" (the last being released as Blood Money).He has also acted in several films, notably Coffee and Cigarettes as himself, Down by Law as a radio DJ who gets framed, Mystery Men as a Mad Scientist, Bram Stoker's Dracula as Renfield, and Wristcutters: A Love Story as Kneller, whose dog is missing. He guest-starred As Himself in an episode of Fishing with John. He plays Mr. Nick (the Devil) in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which also happens to be Heath Ledger's last film, and he was a bird named Virgil in Rosto A.D.'s Monster Of Nix. He also played one of the eponymous Seven Psychopaths, and starred in a segment of the Coen Brothers' anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as a grizzled 18th Century prospector.He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.References to Waits were a Running Gag on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and continue on RiffTrax, mostly because Kevin Murphy is a big fan.Also, for some reason, he's the curator of The Museum of Everything.
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