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Lyrically, Waits ' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places — although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads.
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.
The album also features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on " I Never Talk to Strangers.
The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.
In 1978, Waits also appeared in his first film role, in Paradise Alley as Mumbles the pianist, and contributed the original compositions "( Meet Me in ) Paradise Alley " and " Annie's Back in Town " to the film's soundtrack.
During this period, Waits appeared in a series of minor movie roles, including a cameo role in Wolfen ( 1981 ) as an inebriated piano player, and his song " Jitterbug Boy " also appeared on the movie's soundtrack.
" Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes (" Town with No Cheer ") and marimba (" Shore Leave ") to Waits ' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion ( sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch ), horn sections ( often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music ), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments ( many of Waits ' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin ).
Waits developed his acting career with several supporting roles and a lead role in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law in 1986, which also featured two of Waits's songs from Rain Dogs in the soundtrack.
In the same year, Waits also contributed vocals to the song " Harlem Shuffle " on The Rolling Stones ' album Dirty Work.
" 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.
Waits also collaborated with photographer Sylvia Plachy in the same year ; her book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour includes a short Waits record to accompany the photographs and text.
" Waits also contributed vocals to a duet with singer Bob Forrest on the song " Adios Lounge " on the Thelonious Monster album Beautiful Mess.
1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.
The album also includes the traditional hymn " I Know I've Been Changed ", performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.
That same year, Waits was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists ' careers.
Waits was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards.

Waits and contributed
In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's " It's All Right with Me " to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business — which sold over a million copies worldwide.
The same year, Waits contributed a version of " The Return of Jackie and Judy " by The Ramones to the compilation album We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, which was released in 2003 on Columbia Records.
The same year, Waits contributed backing vocals to the track " Go Tell It on the Mountain " on the Grammy Award ( Best Traditional Gospel Album )- winning album of the same name by The Blind Boys of Alabama.
The album cover contributed to the image of Jones as a stylish beret-wearing beatnik ; it was reported at the time that Jones was a heavy drinker and also a drug addict, and she and Tom Waits were, in some quarters, known as rock music's bohemian couple.

Waits and two
In July 1991, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins released the album Black Music for White People, which features covers of two Waits compositions: " Heartattack & Vine " ( which later that year was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits ' permission, resulting in a lawsuit ) and " Ice Cream Man ".
In 2002, Waits simultaneously released two albums, Alice and Blood Money.
Its main period of use was, like the treble cornett, about 1550 to 1650, although it gained favor in England only after the beginning of the 17th century ; in 1622 the celebrated Norwich Waits possessed at least two.
T-girl – taboo – taboo breaking – talisman – talking dirty – Tamakeri – Tamil marriage customs – tampon – Tanner stage – Tantra – Tantric massage – tantric sex – Taoist sexual practices – taphephilia – tart card – tattooing – tea room – teabagging – tearoom – teasing ( sexology ) – technical virginity – teenage fatherhood – teenage pregnancy – teledildonics – telegony – teleiophilia – telekura – telephone scatologia – telephone scatophilia – telephone sex – telephonicophilia – tellak – temple prostitute – temporal lobe trauma – temporary marriage – teratophilia – termination of pregnancy – territorial marking – terror play – testes – testicle – testicular cancer – testicular feminization – testicular torsion – testicular-feminizing syndrome – testis – testosterone – text picture-thalpotentiginy – theca externa – theca folliculi – theca interna – thecoma – thelarche – third sex – third-sexer – thong underwear – three letters and six etiquettes – three-legged bloomers – threesome – threshold ( disambiguation ) – thrush ( infection ) – tickling – tie and tease – tightlacing – tit wank – titty fuck – tomboy – tongzhi ( sexuality ) – top ( BDSM ) – top ( sex ) – topping – torture ( sexology ) – tossed salad – total enclosure fetishism – toucherism – tourniquet – toxic shock syndrome – tracheal shave – traditional marriage – trampling – tranny – tranny chaser – transactional sex – transactional sexual relationship – transexualism – transgender – transition nuclear protein – transitioning ( transgender ) – transman – transscrotal piercing – transsexual – transsexualism – transurethral needle ablation of the prostate – transurethral resection of the prostate – transvestic fetishism – transvestism – transvestite – transvestitism – transvestophilia – transwoman – traumatic masturbatory syndrome – Treponema pallidum – trial marriage – trial separation – triangle piercing – triangular theory of love – tribadism – Trichomonas vaginalis – Trichomoniasis – trichophilia – triple cock cage – triple cock ring – triple penetration – triple-X syndrome – tripsolagnia – troilism – Trokosi – trophy wife – troubadour – true hermaphroditism – True Love Waits – tubal ligation – tubal reversal – tubal sterilization – tubuli seminiferi recti – TUNA – tunica albuginea ( disambiguation ) – tunica albuginea ( ovaries ) – tunica albuginea ( penis ) – tunica albuginea ( testicles ) – tunica vaginalis – tunica vasculosa testis – Tuppy Owens – turn-off – turn-on – Turner's syndrome – TURPS – twins – two type theory of transsexuality – two-spirit –
These works are today justly forgotten, apart from two ghost stories, " The Lusitania Waits " and " The Log of the Evening Star ", which are still occasionally reprinted in collections of tales of the uncanny.
Tom Waits released two songs about Minneapolis, " Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis " ( Blue Valentine 1978 ) and " 9th & Hennepin " ( Rain Dogs 1985 ).
Other thwarted projects were The Rosary, a 1910 best seller ( which Nelson Eddy pitched for a team comeback at MGM ), The Desert Song and a remake of The Vagabond King, plus two movie treatments written by Eddy, " Timothy Waits for Love " and " All Stars Don't Spangle.
The theatrical adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, with whom Waits had worked on two previous plays: The Black Rider and Alice, both of which resulted in soundtrack albums.
He also wrote two movie treatments for himself and MacDonald, Timothy Waits for Love and All Stars Don't Spangle.
Founded specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne, the label signed Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles and Bob Dylan for two albums.
Being a fan of Neil Young, Tom Waits and Steve Earle affected his work ; he spent the next two years working on a fresh sound.
The 1991 album Mississippi Lad features two tracks with Waits, and Waits covers the Edwards-written ballad " Little Man " on his Orphans collection.
Weiss released the album Extremely Cool in 1999, featuring extensive collaboration with Tony Gilkyson and Tom Waits, who co-produced the album for his longtime acquaintance ( they met in 1974 at Ebbett's Field, where Weiss played in the house band ) and appears on at least two tracks.

Waits and songs
From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre / Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known.
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 )".
Brennan is regularly credited as co-author of many songs in his later albums, and Waits often cites her as a major influence on his work.
) Contributions from guitarists Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, and Keith Richards accompanied Waits ' move away from piano-based songs, in juxtaposition with an increased emphasis on instruments such as marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo.
The same year saw Waits provide spoken word contributions to Devout Catalyst, an album by one of Waits ' greatest influences, Ken Nordine, on the songs " A Thousand Bing Bangs " and " The Movie.
Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular ), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater.
These songs would be recorded by Waits as a studio album 10 years later on Alice.
In 1993, he released The Black Rider, which contained studio versions of the songs that Waits had written for the musical of the same name three years previously, with the exceptions of " Chase the Clouds Away " and " In the Morning ", which appeared in the theatrical production but not on the studio album.
John Hammond's Wicked Grin, a collection of Waits cover songs, was released in 2001.
Waits appears on most songs, playing guitar, piano, and / or offering backing vocals.
Waits beatboxes on the opening track, " Top of the Hill ", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's " vocal percussion " improvisations.
The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".
On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.
Waits appears on the songs " Fadin ' Moon " and " Ghost to a Ghost " on Hank Williams III's 2011 album Ghost to a Ghost / Gutter Town.
Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").
The company had approached Waits to use one of his songs in an advertisement, which Waits declined.
The track listing included covers of songs by Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Richard and Linda Thompson, Blind Willie Johnson, Tom Waits and The Low Anthem.
Burke's career was revived with the July 23, 2002 release of Don't Give Up on Me on Fat Possum Records and produced by Joe Henry, where he sang songs written specifically for the album by various leading recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.
* Albums consisting of one artist performing only songs by another artist, such as Great Zeppelin, a tribute album for Led Zeppelin, performed solely by Great White or Wicked Grin, a collection of Tom Waits songs performed by John Hammond Jr ..

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