9. Pareles, “A Poet of Outcasts Who’s Come Inside.”
10. Pareles, “A Poet of Outcasts Who’s Come Inside.”
11. Pollock — Special Edition, Columbia/TriStar Home Video, 2001.
12. Christina Saraceno, “Waits, Newman Sue MP3.com,” Rolling Stone.com 9 May 2001.
13. Gunderson, “Listen to Waits, Hear his Vision of a Unique World.”
14. “Tori Amos Covers All the Bases,” ice Sept. 2001: 6–7.
15. Gil Kaufman, “Solomon Burke: Return of the King,” VH1.com 15 Jan. 2003.
16. Ruthe Stein, “Hoffman’s Really Big Show,” San Francisco Chronicle 25 Apr. 2003: D1.
17. “Scoop du Jour,” San Francisco Film Society Website sffs.org 25 Apr. 2003.
18. Bruce Bellingham, “Room to Dream,” The San Francisco Examiner, www.sfexaminer.com, 25 Apr. 2003.
19. “Healing the Divide Benefit Concert,” Press release 23 Aug. 2003.
20. Jon Parales, “Star Starts A Show; Tom Waits Ends It,” The New York Times 23 Sept. 2003:E4.
21. Joel Selvin, “Waits, Raitt, Newstead and Buffalo Jam with S.F. Schoolkids,” San Francisco Chronicle 23 Oct. 2003: E1.
22. Lyndsey Parker, “Damien Rice Wins Shortlist Music Prize,” Launch.com 6 Oct. 2003.
23. “Tom Waits Wins Spanish Legal Judgement,” Anti.com 3 Mar. 2004.
24. Anti Records Newsletter 20 Jan. 2004.
25. “Norah Jones — The Long Way Home,” Shore Fire Media Press kit Feb. 2004.
26. Kurt Orzeck, “Los Lobos Goes on The Ride of Its Life,” ice Apr. 2004: 6–7.
27. Rip Rense, “A Few Words About Bone Machine, ”Bone Machine press kit, 1992.
28. Jonathan Cohen, “Billboard Bits: Waits, Bozulich, Santa Fe Jazz Fest,” Billboard.com 21 Aug. 2003.
29. Barney Hoskyns, “Long Gone,” Rock’s Back Pages, www.rocksbackpages.com, Sept. 2004.
30. Tom Waits, kfog-fm Morning Show, kfog-fm, San Francisco, ca, 5 Oct. 2004.
31. Tom Waits, The Dave Fanning Show, rte2-fm, Ireland, 8 Oct. 2004.
32. Hoskyns, “Long Gone .”
33. Vit Wagner, “Songs of Decay from Waits,” Toronto Star 5 Oct. 2004: C05.
34. Tom Waits, Interview with Mark Coles, BBC Radio 4, U.K., 4 Oct. 2004.
35. Robert Everett-Green, “Old Man Waits Is New Again,” The Globe and Mail 4 Oct. 2004: R1.
36. George Varga, “This Musical Maverick Waits For No One — Well, Maybe His Wife,” San Diego Union-Tribune 3 Oct. 2004: F1.
37. Joel Selvin, “Barroom Bard’s Next Round,” San Francisco Chronicle 3 Oct. 2004: 20.
38. Waits, Interview, BBC Radio 4.
39. Waits, Interview, BBC Radio 4.
40. Jonathan Valania, “Magnet Interview with Tom Waits,” Magnet Oct./Nov. 2004: 72.
41. Tom Waits, “It’s Perfect Madness: What the Stars Are Listening To,” The Observer 20 Mar. 2005: 26.
42. Michael Toland, “Aural Fixations,” HighBias.com Oct. 2004.
43. Wagner, “Songs of Decay from Waits.”
44. Everett-Green, “Old Man Waits Is New Again.”
45. Anti.com July 2004.
46. Tom Waits, The Deep End Interview with Vickie Kerrigan, Radio National Australia, 5 Oct. 2004.
47. Waits, Interview, BBC Radio 4.
48. Sylvie Simmons, “The Mojo Interview: Tom Waits Speaks,” Mojo Oct. 2004: 42–46.
49. Thom Jurek, “ Real Gone,” AllMusic.com Oct. 2004.
50. Rod Smith, “Resident Evil Two,” Seattle Weekly 13–19 Oct. 2004: 53.
51. Christian Carey, “ Real Gone,” Splendid.com 29 Jan. 2005.
52. Dean Truitt, “Tom Waits: Not Gone Yet,” OneWay.com Oct. 2004.
53. Steve Hochman, “Waits Tries On Topical For Size,” Los Angeles Times 27 June 2004: E49.
54. Richard Cromelin, “A Cluttered Harmony,” Los Angeles Times 26 Sept. 2004: E43.
55. Don Waller, “Blinking Lights: Eels Slip Into Guest-Laden Sixth Set,” ice Apr. 2005: 5.
56. Adrian Deevoy, “The Son Also Rises: Jakob Dylan — The World’s Most Fashionable Wallflower,” GQ Magazine (U.K.) Oct. 2001.
57. “Guest Edit,” Amazon.com Oct. 2004.
58. Selvin, “Barroom Bard’s Next Round.”
59. Mick Brown, “Tom Waits’ Theatre of Dreams,” Word Feb. 2005: 90–101.
60. James Wray, “Tom Waits Returns To the Big Screen In Domino,” MonstersandCritics.com 17 Dec. 2004.
61. Christopher Morris, “Publisher Sues Warner Music Over Waits Tunes,” ABCNews.com 2 June 2005.
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66. “Party 2000,” Rolling Stone 30 Dec. 1999– 6 Jan. 2000: 47–140.
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37. Greg Gorman / Outline
INDEX
A&M 183
ABCNews.com 219
Abyssian Baptist Gospel Church Choir, The 217
Ace Wrecking 41
Aerosmith 141
“After Midnight” 151
Agora Ballroom 72
Alamo Hotel 59
Alcivar, Bob 80, 205
Alice 172, 174, 193–96, 197, 209, 210, 212
“Alice” 195
“Alice’s Restaurant” 67
Alien Resurrection 198
Allen, Steve 52, 71
Allison, Mose 28, 33, 65, 210
“All the World is Green” 197
Aloe, Herb 53
Alta Cienega Motel 44
Altman, Robert 99, 169, 201–2
Always and Forever Wedding Chapel 112
“Amazing Grace” 136
Amazon.com 217
American Grafitti 123
American Zoetrope Pictures 97–102, 104–6, 110, 205–6
Amos, Tori 199, 203
Amsterdam 171
“And When I Die” 48
Anderson, Eric 49
Angel Heart 200
“Annie’s
Back In Town” 90
“Another Man’s Vine” 197
Anthology of Tom Waits, The 191
Anti Records 178, 194, 197, 214, 218
AntiPop 185
“Anywhere I Lay My Head” 130
Apocalypse Now 97, 110
Apollo 13137
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” 29
Arney, Randall 137
Ashby, Hal 66–67
Association Clubhouse 34
Association, The 34, 51, 52
“As Tears Go By” 145
Asylum/Elektra Records 35, 38, 43, 46, 56, 110, 118–19, 155, 156, 166, 181, 186, 187, 191, 195, 219
At Play in the Fields of the Lord 159
Atlantic Records 199
Auberjonois, René 159
Aubry, Kim 205–6
Audi 203
Austin City Limits 94
Azaria, Hank 187
Babe, Thomas 159
Babenco, Hector 147, 159
“Baby Gonna Leave Me” 214
Bacharach, Burt 33
Backstreet Boys, The 183
Bacon, Kevin 159
“Bad Liver and a Broken Heart” 71, 90
Bad Religion 177
Bad Timing (A Sensual Obsession) 99
Badu, Erykah 203
Baez, Joan 67
Balboa Stadium 25
“Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife, The” 145
Ballinjax Club 67
Baltimore 200
Bam 30, 43, 93
Band, The 149
Bankole, Isaach de 161
Barron, Ronnie 103
Base, Rob and D. J. E-Z Rock 213
Basquiat, Jean-Michel 127
Bates, Kathey 159
Beach Boys, The 28, 53
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale 159
Beat Generation, The 52
Beatles, The 23, 28, 147
Beautiful Losers 212
Beautiful Maladies 175
Beck 38, 48, 174, 180, 184–85
Beezer, Larry 40, 41
Benigni, Roberto 133, 134, 161, 207
Berlin, Irving 33
Berlin, Steve 204
Bernstein, Leonard 87
“Better Off Without a Wife” 63
Betty Nansen Theater 189
Big Al’s 141
Big Bad Love 198, 204
“Big Black Mariah” 128, 130
Big Brother and the Holding Company 44
“Big in Japan” 181, 187
“Big Joe and Phantom 309” 63
Big Time 180–81
Billboard 72, 84, 93, 155, 184, 197, 207, 209
“Bird on a Wire” 212
Bizarre/Straight Records 35, 156
Black and White Night, A 147
Black Keys, The 203
Black Rider, The 170–72, 183, 193, 218
Black Uhuru 120
Blackwell, Chris 119–20, 145, 175
“Black Wings” 167
Blakey, Art 70
Blanchett, Cate 207
Blind Boys of Alabama 200
“Blind Love” 128, 130, 158
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations 216
Blink-182 208
Blondie 45, 46
Blood Money 194, 196–97, 209, 210
Blood, Sweat and Tears 48
“Blowin’ Away” 48
“Blow Wind Blow” 140, 141, 149
“Blue Bayou” 146
Blue Cheer 28
“Blue Skies” 191
Blue Valentine 86, 94, 95, 104, 112
Blue Velvet 147
Blum, Chris 140–41, 149
BMG 198
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods 55
Bone Machine 163–69, 179, 180, 181, 211, 212
Bon Jovi 141
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” 56
Book of Mercy 212
Boom Boom Room, The 188, 197
Boomtown Rats, The 199
“Born in the U.S.A.” 122
Born to Choose 168, 175
Boston Music Hall 40, 63–64, 65
Bounced Checks 110, 191
Bound for Glory 66
Box Tops 141
“Boys of Summer” 130
Bram Stoker’s Dracula 160–61, 163
“Breakfast in Jail” 103
Brecht, Bertolt 16, 146, 171
Brennan, Kathleen 101–2, 103, 106, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 119, 121, 122, 125–26, 130, 133, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 146, 148, 156, 161, 165, 166, 167, 170, 172, 174, 179, 182, 191, 192, 196, 197, 204, 210
Brenner, David 152
“Briar and the Rose, The” 172
Briar Street Theatre 137
Brick 74
Bridges, Jeff 159
Bright Eyes 203, 208, 209
“Broken Bicycles” 98, 107
Broken Blossoms 80
Broken English 145
“Broken Hearts Are for Assholes” 57
Brooklyn Academy of Music 170, 171
“Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” 175
Brother Can You Spare a Dime Day 175
Brown, James 25, 29, 68, 144, 213
Brown, Les 70
Browne, Jackson 23, 56, 147
Bruce, Lenny 33, 68, 91, 217
Bryars, Gavin 173–4
Büchner, Georg 189
Buckingham, Lindsay 46
Buckingham-Nicks 46
Buckley, Tim 34, 47, 49
Buffalo, Norton 202
Bukowski, Charles 31, 43, 55, 62, 64, 112, 122
Bunny197–98
Burge Roberts Mortuary 25
Burke, Solomon 199–200, 202
“Burma Shave” 81, 89, 110
Burnett, T-Bone 147, 201
Burning Airplane 193
Burnside, R. L. 178
Burroughs, William 31, 68, 112, 170, 172
Burton, James 147
Buscemi, Steve 207
Bush, George W. 208–9, 211–12
Bush, Kate 145
Butler, Joe 34–35
Byrds 56, 67
Byrne, David 208
Cadillac Tramps197
Cage, John 112
California Sonic Instrument Designers
Ensemble 188
Calloway, Cab 33
“Candy Apple Red” 206
Candy Mountain134–35
Canned Heat 166
Cannes Lions International Advertising
Festival 219
Captain Amazing 187
Captain Beefheart 34, 116–18, 185
Carmichael, Hoagy 42
Carney, Ralph 140, 166, 180
Carradine, Keith 159
Carroll, Lewis 172, 195
Carter, Stephen 153–54
Cassady, Neal 59, 80
Cat Power 203
CBS Records 77, 78, 79
Cellar Door 64
“Cemetary Polka” 129
Charles, Ray 23, 25, 33, 68, 86, 102, 218
Chelsea Hotel 95
Chemical Brothers, The 203
“Cherish” 34
Chestnutt, Cody 203
Chi Chi Club. See Miss Kiko’s Chi Chi Club
Chilton, Alex 141
Chinese Democracy209
“Chocolate Jesus” 182–83
Christlieb, Pete 62
“Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” 86, 87
“Chuck E.’s in Love” 92–93
Chula Vista, California 17, 23
“Cinny’s Waltz” 79
“Circus” 213–14
City Lights Bookstore 32
Civil War 214
“Clang Boom Steam” 197, 214
Clapton, Eric 54, 151
Clarke, Stanley 88
Clash 178
Claypool, Les 48, 165, 180, 184, 185, 204, 209, 217
Cliff, Jimmy 120
Clinton, George 211
Clio Awards 219
Closing Time19, 34, 39–49, 54, 55, 80, 130, 193, 201
“Coattails of a Dead Man” 185
Cocksucker Blue
s134
Coconut Grove Band, The 147
Cody, Harry 209, 213
Coffee and Cigarettes207
Cohen, Adam 217
Cohen, Greg 88–89, 112, 170, 171, 180, 202, 209
Cohen, Herb 34–35, 38, 49, 57, 61, 67, 82, 89, 112, 116, 155–56, 218–19
Cohen, Leonard 212, 217
Cohen, Mutt 155–56
“Cold Chisel” 206
Cold Cold Ground” 140, 158
Cold Feet159
Coldplay 203
Cole, Gary 137
Cole, Nat “King” 33
Coleman, Lisa 53
Coleman, Ornette 209
Collins, Michael 193
Come Away With Me204
“Coney Island Baby” 197
Conti, Bill 90
Continental Club 143
Coogan, Steve 207
Cooper, Alice 44
Coppola, Francis Ford 97–101, 104–6, 109–11, 124, 160–61, 205–6
Coppola, Roman 206
Corso, Gregory 31
Cort, Bud 159
Costello, Elvis 147, 200, 217
Cotton Club, The124, 125
Country Joe and The Fish 122
Cox, Wally 33
Creem142
Crenshaw Street 94
Crivello, Sal 26, 55
Crosby, Bing 28, 53
Crossing Jordan201
“Crossroad Blues” 182
Crossroads Motel 20
Crowe, Cameron 203
Crowell, Rodney 48
Cruise, Tom 124
“Cry To Me” 199
“Crying” 146, 147
Dalai Lama 202
Dali, Salvador 220
Dalle, Beatrice 161
Dangerfield, Rodney 33
“Danny’s All-Star Joint” 93
Dark Side of the Moon 25
“Date to Church” 141
Dave Fanning Show, The208
“Dave the Butcher” 120
Davis, Miles 32, 163
Davis, Reverend Gary 28
Davison, Bruce 169
Dawes, Biff 139
Da Willie Conga 88
“Day After Tomorrow” 208, 214
“Dazz” 74
“Dead and Lovely” 213
Dead Boys, The 45, 46
Death Cab for Cutie 208, 209
Dead Man Walking175
“Dead Skunk” 67
Death of a Ladies’ Man212
“Deeply Sorry” 178
Def Jam 175, 183
de Havelin, Montclaire 59
Delivery Man, The217
Demon Wine159
DeNiro, Robert 200
Depeche Mode 199
“Depot, Depot” 54
Derek and the Dominoes 54
Der Freischutz (The Marksman)170
“Devil with Blue Suede Shoes” 178
Devil’s Rhubato Band, The 171
“Diamond in Your Mind” 200, 202
Diamond, Val 141
“Diamonds on My Windshield” 54
Dickies, The 446
Dillon, Matt 124
Dime Store Novels (Volume 1): Live at Ebbet’s Field, The193
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