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Alice (The Original Demos) Album Tabletop Joe Hang Me In The Bottle Down The Reeperbahn Everything You Can Think Of Is True Chained Together For Life	Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years Album Hang On St. Christopher Temptation Clap Hands The Black Rider Underground Jockey Full of Bourbon Earth Died Screaming Innocent When You Dream Straight To the Top (Rhumba) Singapore Shore Leave Johnsburg, Illinois Way Down in the Hole Strange Weather (Live) Cold Cold Ground (Live) November Downtown Train 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six Jesus Gonna Be Here Good Old World (Waltz) Time
Big Time Album 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six Big Black Mariah Clap Hands Cold Cold Ground Falling Down Gun Street Girl Johnsburg, Illinois Rain Dogs Red Shoes by the Drugstore Straight To the Top (Rhumba) Straight To the Top (Vegas) Strange Weather Telephone Call From Istanbul Time Train Song Underground Way Down in the Hole Yesterday Is Here	Blood Money Album Misery Is The River Of The World Everything Goes To Hell Coney Island Baby All The World Is Green Lullaby Starving In The Belly Of A Whale The Part You Throw Away Woe A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Blue Valentine Album Somewhere (from West Side Story) Red Shoes by the Drugstore Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Romeo is Bleeding $29.00 Wrong Side of the Road Kentucky Avenue A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun Blue Valentines	Bone Machine Album Earth Died Screaming Dirt in the Ground Such A Scream All Stripped Down Who Are You Jesus Gonna Be Here A Little Rain In the Colosseum Murder in the Red Barn Black Wings Whistle Down the Wind Let Me Get Up On It That Feel
Closing Time Album Virginia Avenue Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) Midnight Lullaby Martha Rosie Lonely Ice Cream Man Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of your Love) Grapefruit Moon Closing Time	Foreign Affairs Album Muriel I Never Talk To Strangers Medley: Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come A Sight For Sore Eyes Burma Shave Barber Shop Foreign Affair
Heartattack and Vine Album Heartattack and Vine In Shades Saving All My Love For You Downtown Jersey Girl On the Nickel Mr. Siegal	Mule Variations Album Big In Japan Lowside Of The Road Hold On Get Behind The Mule House Where Nobody Lives Cold Water Pony Black Market Baby Eyeball Kid Picture In A Frame Chocolate Jesus Georgia Lee Filipino Box Spring Hog Take It With Me Come on up to the House
Night on Earth Album Back in the Good Old World Los Angeles Mood Los Angeles Theme New York Theme New York Mood Good Old World On the Other Side of the World	Nighthawks at the Diner Album (Opening Intro) Emotional Weather Report On a Foggy Night Eggs & Sausage Better Off Without a Wife Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) Warm Beer and Cold Women Putnam County Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) Nobody Big Joe and Phantom 309 Spare Parts II and Closing
One from the Heart Album Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream Picking Up After You Old Boyfriends Broken Bicycles I Beg Your Pardon Little Boy Blue Take Me Home Once Upon a Town The Wages of Love	Rain Dogs Album Singapore Clap Hands Cemetery Polka Jockey Full of Bourbon Big Black Mariah Diamonds and Gold Hang Down Your Head Time Rain Dogs Midtown 9th & Hennepin Gun Street Girl Union Square Blind Love Walking Spanish Downtown Train Bride of Rain Dog Anywhere I Lay My Head
Small Change Album Step Right Up Jitterbug Boy I Wish I Was in New Orleans The Piano Has Been Drinking Invitation to the Blues Pasties and a G-string Bad Liver and a Broken Heart The One That Got Away Small Change	Swordfishtrombones Album Underground Shore Leave Dave the Butcher Johnsburg, Illinois 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six Town With No Cheer In the Neighborhood Just Another Sucker on the Vine Swordfishtrombones Down, Down, Down Gin Soaked Boy Rainbirds
The Black Rider Album Lucky Day Overture The Black Rider November Just the Right Bullets Black Box Theme Flash Pan Hunter/Intro The Briar and the Rose Russian Dance Gospel Train/Orchestra Flash Pan Hunter Crossroads Gospel Train Interlude Oily Night Lucky Day The Last Rose of Summer Carnival	The Early Years Album Had Me A Girl Ice Cream Man Little Trip To Heaven Midnight Lullabye Virginia Ave.
The Early Years, Vol. 2 Album Blue Skies Diamonds on my Windshield Grapefruit Moon In Between Love I Want You Nobody Old Shoes Please Call Me, Baby Shiver Me Timbers So It Goes	The Heart of Saturday Night Album New Coat Of Paint San Diego Serenade Semi Suite Shiver Me Timbers Diamonds on my Windshield (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night Please Call Me, Baby Depot, Depot Drunk on the Moon The Ghosts of Saturday Night
Used Songs (1973-1980) Album Heartattack and Vine Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) A Sight For Sore Eyes Burma Shave Step Right Up I Never Talk To Strangers Mr. Siegal Jersey Girl Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis Blue Valentines (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night Muriel Wrong Side of the Road

Thomas Alan Waits was born on the eighth anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was born on December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California. He and his two sisters grew up moving around from city to city in California. His parents who are both school teachers divorced when he was 10. They then moved to National City. Tom's grandfather was christened Jesse Frank Waits and his father Frank Waits. Tom is Scottish and Irish from his father's side of the family and Norwegian from his mother's side.

Tom became interested in music early and began tacking up sheets of Bob Dylan's lyrics in his room and even framed some in the rest of his house. He would keep a pad of paper and pencil by his bed so that he could remember the lyrics that he would think up in the middle of the night. He taught himself how to play the piano at a neighbor's house and then learned the guitar on a Gibson.

As well as creating music at an early age, the persona that Tom is famous for soon appeared. He enjoyed entertaining his classmates and his teachers as soon as his secondary schooling. An art class teacher would let him play his harmonica for the class and sometimes he would be asked to get up on the tables and do his version of a "soft shoe". He also tried as soon as possible to grow a mustache and a goatee. Sal, Tom's employer at "Napoleone's Pizza House", used to joke that he had more hair growing wild on his ass than Tom could cultivate on his face.

During his adolescence, Tom spent quite some time keeping his cars running. He first had problems with his '54 Ford station wagon that he called a "bato wagon". He then worked on his '55 Buick which was to be inspiration for the song "Ole '55" which the Eagles covered. He then progressed to the '61 white volkswagen where he finally learned how to drive a stick shift.

Waits got into the music business at an early age. In the summer of 1972 he was working as a doorman at The Heritage in San Diego. He would get up between acts and perform on a small stage (I don't know if this was part of the job or just something management let get away with). These performances caught someone's eye, because Herb Cohen had signed him on to Asylum records at the age of 22.

Early in his career he began living in the famed Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Blvd in LA which is somewhat near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. He toured alot where he supposedly opened for such varied acts like C&W superstar Charlie Rich, pianist Billy Preston, John Hammond and Frank Zappa. During this time, Tom tried to live the lifestyle that he portrayed in his songs. During this time of smoke and alcohol, he also became involved with Rickie Lee Jones. This singer (who is featured on the "Blue Valentine" album cover) and pal Chuck E. Weiss were part of the same crazy scene that defined Tom's persona in the seventies.

After too many late nights, Tom realized that he could not go on the same way for much longer. The persona he had struggled so hard to define would now cause him problems. One of Tom's first trying times came after he released Foreign Affairs and Blue Valentine. Critics seemed to think these albums were just going down the same rut as the earlier albums and without the same spirit. These albums are great albums, but I think it was the beginning of a change for which people were not ready.

At the same time Tom seemed to be struggling with what he wanted to do, two good things happened in his life. The first was working with Francis Ford Coppola and Zoetrope. He was to compose the music for "One From The Heart" where alot of the story is told through the music. Tom enjoyed this experience because Coppola showed him how to sit down and actually write music. It gave Tom alot more control over his life and his love of music. The second benefit for working with Zoetrope appeared after he met a script editor named Kathleen Brennan.

Kathleen soon caught Tom's eye and they began their unorthodox relationship. Waits has stated that "She can lie down on nails, stick a knitting needle through her lip and still drink coffeee, so I knew she was the girl for me." They were married in August 1980 and honeymooned in Tralee, Co. Kerry. When Patrick Humphries asked Tom Waits about the marriage ceremony, he said: "I found the Marriage Chapel in the Yellow Pages, right next to 'Massage'. The registrar's name was Watermelon and he kept calling me Mr. Watts!" Tom not only memorialized his love for her in songs like "Johnsburg, Illinois" (her birth place), she would also become a major force and collaborator in his music as well.

With these new experiences, Tom ventured a little too far away from stable ground for Asylum Records. His album Swordfishtrombones was just a little too strange for what management expected. Waits took this album and his music to Island Records where he found a new home. The next few albums were a metamorphosis of his career. These albums were done without the back streets and alley ways of his early albums. The lyrics went a little deeper and the music expanded from his folk and jazz roots into a bizarre combination of strange instrumentation. This new style has never been played on the mainstream radio stations, but it gained him a very strong reputation among other musicians and the fans that remained with him became stronger than ever.

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