Tom Waits plays the South for the first time in decades and leaves his spirit at home When Bob Dylan plays a minor-league baseball park in Winston-Salem on Aug. 18, he may thank the audience once. He probably won't say a word. Instead, Dylan will stand and deliver, directing a …
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the legendary folk singer who passed Woody Guthrie's legacy on to Bob Dylan, turned 75 Monday. And after decades of watching more driven performers enjoy the success he's never experienced, now he's ready to get serious about his career. “I've never had that (drive), but I'm starting …
Review: After a three-decade absence, Waits was worth the wait "Here's the deal … you don't want to oversaturate the market." That's how Tom Waits explained his three-decade performing absence from Nashville, one he more than made up for Saturday night at the Ryman Auditorium in front of a sold-out …
TOM WAITS did something last Saturday at The Ryman that may have been a first in the annals of Nashville music: he asked the moonstruck audience to stop clapping in time as he played. Perhaps only he could have pulled it off without seeming like a prima donna or a …
By Guardian Unlimited / Music 02:45pm Tom Waits in concert. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP It's the opening night of Tom Waits' first American tour in seven years, and the queue wraps around an entire Atlanta city block. The historic Tabernacle Theater is small, it's almost showtime, and all 2,500 of us …
After 29 years, we'll take in all 2 hours By Mark Jordan Special to The Commercial Appeal August 6, 2006 "It's good to be back in Memphis," Tom Waits said shortly after taking the stage before a sold-out audience at the Orpheum, the singer-songwriter's first concert in Memphis in 29 …