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Tom Waits on Tom Waits : interviews and encounters / edited by Paul Maher, Jr.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-56976-312-4 (pbk.)
1. Waits, Tom, 1949Interviews. 2. SingersUnited StatesInterviews. I. Waits, Tom, 1949 II. Maher, Paul, 1963
ML420.W13A5 2011
782.42164092dc22
2011013874
Cover and interior design: Jonathan Hahn
Cover photograph: Rob Verhorst/Redferns/Getty Images
2011 by Paul Maher Jr.
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Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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ISBN 978-1-56976-312-4
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5 4 3 2 1
Vanity Fair: On what occasions do you lie?
Tom Waits: Who needs an occasion?
from Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair (November 2004)
CONTENTS
September 21, 1973Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Howard Larman, FolkScene, KPFK
January 13, 1974From Bouncing to Hooting to Playing the Road
Interviewer: Lou Curtiss and Stephen Swain,San Diego Reader
February 18, 1974Tom Waits: Saturday Night Seeker
Interviewer: Kenny Weissberg,Colorado Daily
July 23, 1974Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Howard Larman,FolkScene, KPFK
October 1974The Heart of Saturday Night Press Release
by Tom Waits
January 12, 1975Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Howard and Roz Larman,FolkScene, KPFK
January 17, 1975Tom Waits: Los Angeles Is Poetry
Interviewer: Marco Barla,LA Free Press
June 21, 1975Waits: The Beats Go On
Interviewer: Jeff Burger,Melody Maker
Oct. 1723, 1975Tom Waits: In Close Touch with the Streets
Interviewer: Todd Everett,Los Angeles Free Press
June 11, 1976Play It Again Tom
Interviewer: Robert Ward,Syracuse New Times
December 2329, 1976Tom Waits for No One?
Interviewer: Jim Gerard,Northeastern Ohio Scene
December 30, 1976The Ramblin Street Life Is the Good Life for Tom Waits
Interviewer: Rich Trenbeth,Country Rambler
November 1977After a One-Night Stand
Interviewer: Bart Bull,Phoenix New Times
November 13, 1977A Rumor in My Spare Time
Interviewer: Pete Oppel,Dallas Morning News
December 2, 1978Poet and Person Merge into Paradox
Interviewer: Pete Oppel,Dallas Morning News
December 12, 1978Waits Bringing New Band, Same Old Clothes
Interviewer: Charley Delisle,Santa Barbara News and Review
January 23, 1979Tom Waits for No One
Interviewer: Stan Soocher,Circus Weekly
September 4, 1980Elektra Records Promo Interview
Interviewer: Stephen K. Peeples
July 17, 1983A Simple Love Story
Interviewer: Peter Guttridge,City Limits
Late 1983A Conversation with Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones Promo, Island Records
September 1983Skid Romeo
Interviewer: Robert Elms,Face
Late Summer 1985The Sultan of Sleaze
Interviewer: Pete Silverton,You
Late Summer 1985Waits Happening
Interviewer: Pete Silverton,Beat
Late 1985RainDogs Tourbook
by Tom Waits
Late 1985Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Michael Tearson, CBC Stereo
September 1987Boho Blues
Interviewer: Bart Bull,Spin
October 1987Better Waits Than Ever
Interviewer: Bill Forman,Music & Sound Output
July 1992The Lie in Waits
Interviewer: Pete Silverton,Observer
September 1992Composer, Musician, Performer, Actor: Tom Waits Is a Renaissance Man Whose Musique Noir Captures the Sound of the Dark Age
Interviewer: Derk Richardson,Pulse
October 12, 1992Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Chris Douridas,Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW
April 10, 1999Hobo Sapiens
Interviewer: Mick Brown,Telegraph Magazine
April 2229, 1999Tom Waits for No Man
Interviewer: Brett Martin,Time Out New York
April 2228, 1999Wily Tom Waitss Barnyard Breakthrough
Interviewer: Tim Perlich,Now
May 1999Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Gabriella,NY Rock
June/July 1999The Man Who Howled Wolf
Interviewer: Jonathan Valania,Magnet
October 13, 1999Interview with Tom Waits
Interviewer: Bret Saunders,Studio C, KBCO
July/August 2000Tradition with a Twist
Interviewer: Bret Kofford,Blues Revue
April 10, 2002Grimms Reapers
Interviewer: Terry Gilliam,BlackBook
May 2002Tom Waits
Interviewer: Russell Bongard,Big Brother
May 29, 2002Tom Waits
Interviewer: Keith Phipps,A. V. Club
June 2, 2002The Hobo Comes Home
Interviewer: Iain Shedden,The Australian
June 13, 2002Were All Mad Here
Interviewer: Robert Lloyd, ANTI- Electronic Press Kit
September 2004One Wild Ride
Interviewer: Pamela Feinsilber,San Francisco Magazine
August or September 2004Its Last Call Somewhere in the World
Interviewer: Jonathan Valania,Magnet
September 2004The Mojo Interview: Tom Waits Speaks
Interviewer: Sylvie Simmons,Mojo
December 2004Tom Waits: Dancing in the Dark
Interviewer: Tom Moon,Harp
December 2004All Stripped Down
Interviewer: Tom Lanham,Paste
October 27, 2006Tom Waits: Call and Response
Interviewer: Katherine Turman,Stop Smiling
November 16, 2006Tom Waits: Haunted Songsters Revelatory Dispatch from the Twilight Zone
Interviewer: Tim Perlich,Now
November 27, 2006Interview: Tom Waits
Interviewer: Amanda Petrusich,Pitchfork