Martin Mull (1943–2024)
The Fernwood 2 Night episode with Tom Waits is not to be missed.
Iggy Pop and Tom Waits play records
Raise your hand if you know Captain Beefheart’s “Bat Chain Puller.”
Encore?
From The Washington Post: “Has the encore left the building?” With encores from Tom Waits and Richard Goode.
Domestic comedy
“So do you like my Tom Waits imitation?”
In Indiana
“When you need wigs and novelties, and you’re in Indiana, you can hang it up, buddy!” Tom Waits.
Tom Waits awaits
Tom Waits’s 1978 Austin City Limits performance is online at PBS until January 19. This episode also appears to be airing on at least some PBS stations this week.
Pianos, drinking and non-
It took me lo these many years to realize that Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” (1973) must have been the jumping-off point for Tom Waits’s “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)” (1977).
Muriel who?
Dowdy names in Henry.
Pianos, Joel’s and Waits’s
Did Tom Waits’s “The Piano Has Been Drinking” begin life as a parody of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”?
Out to the meadow with Tom Waits
Tom Waits putting on an interviewer, I think.
Frank Sinatra and Tom Waits
More than a passing resemblance
Tom Waits on parenthood
good quotation from TW