Tom Waits – Glitter and Doom

Hearing Tom Waits live will never reveal the man behind the myth. In each of three live albums that span his forty-year career, Waits has always sounded near death, if not undead. Since his first live album, 1975′s Nighthawks at the Diner, Waits has drifted like a drunken ghost out of beatnik clubs to wander across the nocturnal Earth, growling out taller tales with each album. With his third, Glitter and Doom, Waits’ monstrous bellow has only grown as grotesque as the characters that haunt the vaudevillian graveyard in which he has always toiled.

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This entry was written by Kent Szlauderbach, posted on December 29, 2009 at 1:53 am, filed under New Music and tagged Glitter and Doom, Tom Waits. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.