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Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones (Paperback, REV)
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Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones (Paperback, REV)
Series: 33 1/3
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Two entwined narratives run through the creation of
"Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the
1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his
persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New
York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. But at his low
point, he got the phone call that changed everything: Francis Ford
Coppola asked Tom to write the score for "One From the Heart".
Waits moved back to Los Angeles to work at Zoetrope's Hollywood
studio for the next eighteen months. He cleaned up, disciplined
himself as a songwriter and musician, collaborated closely with
Coppola and met a script analyst named Kathleen Brennan - his "only
true love".They married within two months at the Always and Forever
Yours Wedding Chapel at 2am. "Swordfishtrombones" was the first
thing Waits recorded after his marriage, and it was at Kathleen's
urging that he made a record that conceded exactly nothing to his
record label, or the critics, or his fans. There aren't many love
stories where the happy ending sounds like a paint can tumbling in
an empty cement mixer!Kathleen Brennan was sorely disappointed by
Tom's record collection. She forced him out of his comfortable
jazzbo pocket to take in foreign film scores, German theatre and
Asian percussion. These two stories of a man creating that elusive
American second act, and also finding the perfect collaborator in
his wife give this book a natural forward drive."Thirty-Three and a
Third" is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and
much-loved albums of the past 40 years. By turns obsessive,
passionate, creative and informed, the books in this series
demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.
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