tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66816762026-04-04T20:44:49.421+02:00Bringing you all the Tom Waits news since 2004Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681676.post-24738529816627945332026-03-25T19:06:00.004+01:002026-04-02T08:54:16.406+02:00

Record company Anti announced a new album called Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow, with covers of Tom Waits / Kathleen Brennan songs by various artists, such as Solomon Burke, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. Most of the recordings were available previously, as far as I can tell. At the moment, the album only seems available as a cd. Preorder is (was) only possible at

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Tom Waits will be starring in Wild Horse Nine, the upcoming movie written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Other actors include John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi. The film – a thriller set in 1973 following a CIA-backed coup in Chile – will be released on 6 November 2026 by Searchlight Pictures.Sources: Vanity Fair, Wikipedia, IMDB

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 Tom Waits is one of the artists on the upcoming Shane MacGowan tribute album 20th Century Paddy: the songs of Shane MacGowan.Other artists contributing to the album include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, the Libertines, Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and the surviving Pogues. Some star-studded duets too, with Hozier and Jessie Buckley and Johnny Depp and Imelda May.The album should be

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On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.

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A new (?) version of Tom Waits' performance at the Dead Man Walking benefit concert has surfaced on the Oddities&Rarities Youtube account. The post also includes a download link for the 4k video. The setlist: Walk AwayGun Street GirlThe Fall of TroyGoin' Out WestBig Black MariahYesterday Is HereInnocent When You DreamThe band consisted of Stephen Hodges (drums), Smokey Hormel (

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Laika studios has released (some sort of) trailer for the upcoming Wildwood, an animated movie which counts Tom Waits as one of its cast. The release is expected somewhere next year.

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The book Waits/Corbijn ‘77-’11 is back in print in a slightly smaller version than the original edition. It's due for release on October 21 in Europe and December 9 in the US and is available for pre-order at the Tom Waits store.The book documents over 30 years of collaboration between Tom Waits and Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn. It features over 200 pages of Tom Waits portraits by Anton

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Tom Waits is releasing a third print edition of his poem, Seeds On Hard Ground. The chap book was originally released in 2011 to raise awareness and funds for homeless services. The new edition underscores the persistence of this condition and all proceeds will be donated to NAMI and the Redwood Food Bank, among others.  This edition will be limited to 2.000 copies. You can order it at the

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Jim Jarmusch’s movie Father Mother Sister Brother was awarded with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In the movie, Tom Waits stars alongside Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling and Cate Blanchett.

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Italian tv channel RAI3 is showing Ultima Fermata (Last Stop) on Thursday evening (11.10 pm), a documentary by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis and Luigi Montebello about homeless people in the US. According to RAI3, Tom Waits “returns to play exclusively” for this program in the Il Fattore Umano series. “With the poems taken from Seeds on hard ground, the musician acts as a counterpoint to the

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The Utah Film Commission announced the Utah Board of Tourism Development approval of five new productions for state film incentives, one of which is Wild horse nine, by writer/director Martin McDonagh (who you might know from The Banshees of Inisherin, Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri or In Bruges). The movie starts John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey, Mark Ruffalo, and 

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 I missed this one: Tom Waits appeared in the movie Absence of Eden, directed by Marco Perego, which was released in the US last year. And another movie starring Tom Waits, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (with a cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Charlotte Rampling), is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, director Jim Jarmusch told France Inter a couple

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Anti is releasing a 7" vinyl version of the 'spritiual' version of Get behind the mule to celebrate Record Store Day on April 12.

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Last year, Waits co-hosted an Iggy Confidential episode, echoing their famous appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. The 2-hour program will re-air on Sunday, Dec 29 @ 4pm (GMT) on @bbcsoundsAvailable online for 30 days via the BBC Sounds app https://t.co/gGN24qGDgV pic.twitter.com/A2uS05li6M— Tom Waits (ANTI-) (@tomwaits) December 29, 2024

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 On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.

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To mark the 50th anniversary of The Heart of Saturday Night, ANTI- is reissuing the album on two limited edition colors: 'slightly gold' (limited to 800 copies) and 'raspberry beret (limited to 3,700 copies). These releases will be out on December 6th, but are available for pre-order now.

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Mule Variations, the album is re-issued on 180g 'slightly silver'-coloured vinyl. You can get it here. 

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the album Mule variations Tom Waits and ANTI- Records released a new rendition of the song Get behind the mule, with slightly different lyrics. In this alternate take of the album's iconic track, Waits' gospel moans resonate with raw emotion, accompanied only by a gritty Wurlitzer. This stripped-down rendition amplifies the dark narrative of murder

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Tom Waits will feature in a new Jim Jarmusch movie called Father Mother Sister Brother, Variety reports. The picture will also have a strong musical component, Jarmusch has said, according to Variety, contradicting earlier reports that suggested there might be very little or no music at all.  The movie - “a comedy interwoven with threads of melancholy” - also stars Adam Driver

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Tom Waits has written a poem called ‘Burnt Toast To Keith’ to mark Keith Richards’ 80th birthday. It appears in the January 2024 edition of UK magazine Uncut. Available in shops now, or online at their web store. Read the complete poem at Uncut.co.uk.

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Not sure how to interpret this, but according to this piece on Tidal, another Tom Waits album ‘could be closer than you think’: ‘he’s reportedly writing songs again’.How to Play With Tom Waits: Tom Waits’ collaborators — including Marc Ribot, Tchad Blake, Greg Cohen and others — remember the brilliant madness that went into the maestro’s (newly remastered) Island Records catalog.

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Nicolas Cage was presented the Shrem Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting at the SSFilm Awards last week. Tom Waits was the surprise celebrity introducing the actor on that occasion. More about the event in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.

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The London arts venue The Horse Hospital celebrates Tom Waits with an evening of 'words, flickering pictures, scratched discs and unspooled cassettes'. The event will be hosted by Travis Elborough and welcomes biographer Barney Hoskins and photographer Eva Vermandel.Through the looking glasses Presents: A Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis on Saturday, 9 December (7-10 pm) at The Horse

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Tom Waits will be co-hosting a two-hour Iggy Confidential episode with Iggy Pop on BBC's Radio 6 on Sunday December 3rd from 4pm (UK time). 

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