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The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974, on Asylum Records. [2] The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. [3]
After Island Records, Waits moved to Anti/Epitaph for Mule Variations, an album that won him a second Grammy. [1] Since the mid-1980s, he has collaborated with his wife Kathleen Brennan. His latest studio album, titled Bad as Me, was released in 2011. [1] As of 2011, according to Nielsen Soundscan, Waits has sold 4.6 million albums in the ...
"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" (commonly known as "Tom Traubert's Blues" or "Waltzing Matilda") is a song by American musician Tom Waits. It is the opening track on Waits' fourth studio album Small Change , released in September 1976 on Asylum Records .
David Geffen saw Waits perform “Grapefruit Moon” during the young singer’s Monday residency at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, and signed Waits to his burgeoning new label Asylum Records.
[3] Waits performed the song, in truncated form, on the short-lived US television show, Fernwood 2 Night in 1977, during the promotion for Small Change. The appearance also included a short skit in interview form, premised on a broken-down tour bus, during which Waits asks to borrow money from hosts Martin Mull and Fred Willard.
Tom Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. [3] [4] He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records.
‘It was a big thrill for me,’ US artist tells Iggy Pop in a rare radio appearance
Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on March 6, 1973, on Asylum Records.Produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, Closing Time was the first of seven of Waits' major releases by Asylum.