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Tom Waits started out in the early 1970s as a piano-based barroom balladeer with a penchant for beat poetry and West Coast jazz. By the late '80s...
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Gimme a bourbon and don't be stingyLOCATION: film theater , BostonYEAR: 1986TAGS: bourbon, Jim JarmuschPUBLISHED: August 16, 2008I first heard of Tom Waits when I read Rolling Stone magazine's review of the Rain Dogs album (we still called them albums in those days). I'd never heard his music but the review intrigued me. However, Tom Waits wasn't seen in the suburbs or heard on the radio. It wasn't until I got a chance to see Jim Jarmusch's film, Down By Law, that I actually heard Tom's music. This song played over the opening credits. It was bluesy, scruffy and reeked of gutters and alleys, cigarettes and dive bars, hoodlums and the happily disenfranchised. I was utterly enchanted. (Tom's wonderful performance in the film only heightened my infatuation.) Rain Dogs was the first CD I ever bought and it's still in heavy rotation even after all these years. And I still drink bourbon occasionally.
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