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Waits and award
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an award of $ 2. 375 million in his favor ( Waits v. Frito-Lay, 978 F. 2d 1093 ( 9th Cir.
Waits sues the police for false arrest and imprisonment and eventually wins a $ 7, 500 award in 1982.
Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R. E. M., Prince, Run-D. M. C., Eurythmics, Beastie Boys, and Talking Heads, on its covers and did lengthy features on established figures such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, and John Lee Hooker — Bart Bull's article on Hooker won the magazine its first major award.

Waits and with
This had been followed three years later by " Twins ", a segment featuring actors Steve Buscemi and Joie and Cinqué Lee, and then in 1993 with the Short Film Palme d ' Or-winning " Somewhere in California ", starring musicians Tom Waits and Iggy Pop.
* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.
Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding " like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.
Although Waits ' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries.
Waits lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.
After Waits ' parents divorced in 1960, he lived with his mother in Whittier, and then moved to National City, in San Diego County, near the Mexico – United States border.
Waits, who taught himself how to play the piano on a neighbor's instrument, often took trips to Mexico with his father, who taught Spanish ; he would later say that he found his love of music during these trips through a Mexican ballad that was " probably a Ranchera, you know, on the car radio with my dad.
In 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of L. A. ( at the time, also home to musicians Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J. D. Souther, Jackson Browne, and Frank Zappa ) and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21.
Waits received increasing critical acclaim and gathered a loyal cult following with his subsequent albums.
In 1975, Waits moved to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard and released the double album Nighthawks at the Diner, recorded in a studio with a small audience in order to capture the ambience of a live show.
In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".
With it, Waits broke onto Billboards Top 100 Albums chart for the first time in his career ( a feat Waits would not repeat until 1999 with the release of Mule Variations ).
The album also features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on " I Never Talk to Strangers.
Around this time, Waits had a relationship with Rickie Lee Jones ( who appears on the sleeve art of the Blue Valentine album ).
The same year, he began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Waits to provide music for his film One from the Heart.
For Coppola's film, Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler ; she was unavailable due to prior engagements, however.
Waits ended up working with singer / songwriter Crystal Gayle as his vocal foil for the album.
Despite having shared a manager with Beefheart in the 1970s, Waits says, " I became more acquainted with him when I got married.
" Waits would later describe his relationship with Brennan as a paradigm shift in his musical development.
One from the Heart received its official theatrical release in 1982, with Waits appearing in a cameo as a trumpet player as well as receiving an Oscar nomination for Original Song Score ( eventually losing out to Victor Victoria, by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse ).
This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Waits and humor
Singer Tom Waits claimed he cried upon viewing it and Eddie Van Halen has said that when he first saw the film, everyone else in the room with him laughed as he failed to see the humor in the film.

Waits and They
They were joined by Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k. d.
They were a popular couple at the time ( Second City TV skits ...) and they moved in together, Waits leaving his Tropicana days, Jones coming off a world wide tour in which she was booked as ' the new voice of America ' in Germany, France and England.

Waits and I
Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.
By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).
Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.
Waits, looking back at the period, has said, I was sick through that whole period [...] It was starting to wear on me, all the touring.
With the album, Waits asserted that he " tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have.
" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.
The album also includes the traditional hymn " I Know I've Been Changed ", performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.
On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.
" Stevens demanded the removal of the poems " A Woman Waits for Me " and " To a Common Prostitute ", as well as changes to " Song of Myself ", " From Pent-Up Aching Rivers ", " I Sing the Body Electric ", " Spontaneous Me ", " Native Moments ", " The Dalliance of the Eagles ", " By Blue Ontario ’ s Shore ", " Unfolded Out of the Folds ", " The Sleepers ", and " Faces ".
I remember this Tom Waits quote from years ago, that what keeps him going as a songwriter is his complete ignorance of the instruments he's using.
* The Wire ( 2004 ) (" I Feel Alright "), (" Down in the Hole " as performer only, written by Tom Waits )
The True Love Waits pledge states: " Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship.
* A line in the Tom Waits song " Shiver Me Timbers " from the album The Heart of Saturday Night runs " I know Martin Eden's gonna be a-proud of me ".
Waits himself described the song's subject during a concert in Sydney Australia in March 1979: " Uh, well I met this girl named Matilda.
Album closer " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" has a simple musical arrangement, boasting only Waits ' voice and piano.
Waits, looking back at the period said: I was sick through that whole period [...] It was starting to wear on me, all the touring.
With the album Waits asserted that he " tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail-lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have.
Waits said of the bare-bones studio, " I found a great room to work in, it's just a cement floor and a hot water heater.

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