TOM WAITS
Tom Waits is a legend in music and storytelling, known for his gravelly voice, experimental soundscapes, and vividly poetic lyrics. With a career spanning decades, Waits has seamlessly fused blues, jazz, rock, and avant-garde elements, creating a genre-defying body of work. Beyond his music, Waits is also a celebrated actor and cultural icon, whose influence resonates across generations of artists.
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Signed limited edition print of Tom Waits at the coffee shop Dukes Place in the Tropican Motel , Hollywood, California, where he lived at the time July 1975. Taken by Barry Schultz.
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Signed, limited edition print of Tom Waits in Santa Rosa, California in January 1999 by Jill Furmanovsky. Print purchase comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Photographer’s notes:
“Tom drove into town in a battered, sky-blue, Cadillac Coupe de Ville and loped into this Chinese diner wearing a mangled hat. He was clearly a regular because the owner greeted him warmly and the food was very good. He is reading a book called The Mammoth Book of Oddities by Frank O'Neil.'“
Tom Waits by photographer David Corio, The Victoria Apollo, London, March, 1981. Comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Photographer notes: This was a comparatively rare live outing for Tom Waits – at least in England where he very rarely performs. The show opened with a specially designed set as the exterior of an old bar straight out of a western, the ‘street’ lit by a single light. Tom walked on stage and leaned nonchalantly against the lamppost, a burning cigarette dangling between his fingers. After a few songs and cigarettes, he wandered over to the piano and began to play. Although the whole set looked beautiful, it was a nightmare to photograph. Darkness was the design theme. There was just one light above Tom at the piano and the brim of his trilby kept his face in shadow. Luckily he also played guitar and stood up for a few numbers where I could at least grab a few shots
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