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Beautiful Maladies
''Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years'' is a Tom Waits compilation album, consisting of previously released songs from his years recording with Island Records, most notably from the albums ''Swordfishtrombones'', ''Rain Dogs'', ''Big Time (Tom Waits album), Big Time'' and ''Franks Wild Years''. The tracks were selected by Tom Waits. The album was released in 1998, but represents Waits's output from 1983 to 1993. Track listing #"Hang On St. Christopher" (originally on the album ''Franks Wild Years'') - 2:44 #"Temptation" (originally on the album ''Franks Wild Years'') - 3:53 #"Clap Hands" (originally on the album ''Rain Dogs'') - 3:48 #"The Black Rider" (originally on the album ''The Black Rider (album), The Black Rider'') - 3:23 #"Underground" (originally on the album ''Swordfishtrombones'') - 1:59 #"Jockey Full of Bourbon" (originally on the album ''Rain Dogs'') - 2:47 #"Earth Died Screaming" (originally on the album ''Bone Machine'') - 3:38 #"Innocent When You Dream (78)" (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If the recordings are from several artists, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franks Wild Years
''Franks Wild Years'' is the tenth studio album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. It is the third in a loose trilogy that began with ''Swordfishtrombones''. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The play had its world premiere at the Briar St. Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on June 22, 1986, performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. "If I Have to Go" was used in the play, but released only in 2006 on '' Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards''. The theme from "If I Have to Go" was used under the title "Rat's Theme" in the documentary '' Streetwise'' as early as 1984. The title is derived from "Frank's Wild Years", a track from ''Swordfishtrombones''. Background Per Steve Hochman, "This rags-to-rags tale completes the trilogy that began with 1983's ''Swordfishtrombones'' (featuring the song 'Frank's Wild Years,' in which the protago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Compilation Albums
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The '' Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night On Earth (soundtrack)
''Night on Earth'' is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1992 on Island Records. It is the soundtrack to the 1991 Jim Jarmusch film of the same name. Three musicians who performed on this album went on to form the group Oranj Symphonette. Track listing All tracks written by Tom Waits, except where noted. Songs arranged by Tom Waits and Francis Thumm. Recorded and mixed by Biff Dawes and assisted by Joe Marquez at Prairie Sun Studios. Personnel * Tom Waits - vocals, pump organ, drums, percussion, piano * Ralph Carney - trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, baritone horn, pan pipes * Josef Brinckmann - accordion * Matthew Brubeck - cello * Joe Gore - guitar, banjo * Clark Suprynowitz - bass * Francis Thumm - harmonium The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ that uses free reeds to generate sound, with air passing over vibrating thin metal strips mounted in a frame. Types include the pressure-based harmonium, the suction reed organ (wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Ought 6
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty- aught-six" ), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use until the late 1970s. In the cartridge's name, ".30" refers to the nominal caliber of the bullet in inches; "06" refers to the year the cartridge was adopted, 1906. It replaced the .30-03 Springfield, 6mm Lee Navy, and .30-40 Krag cartridges. The .30-06 remained the U.S. Army's primary rifle and machine gun cartridge for nearly 50 years before being replaced by the 7.62×51mm NATO and 5.56×45mm NATO, both of which remain in current U.S. and NATO service. The cartridge remains a very popular sporting round, with ammunition produced by all major manufacturers. History In the early-1890s, the U.S. military adopted the smokeless powder .30-40 Krag rimmed cartridge. The 1894 version of that cartridge used a round-nose bullet. Around 1901 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Train
"Downtown Train" is a song by Tom Waits released on his album ''Rain Dogs'' in 1985. The promo video for the song was directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, and features boxer Jake LaMotta and Neith Hunter. Rod Stewart version Rod Stewart recorded a cover version that became a number-three hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart after being released as a single in late 1989, and was also a number-one single on the album rock and adult contemporary charts. The song went to number one in Canada and made the top ten on the UK Singles Chart in 1990. Stewart received a Grammy nomination for the song in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance. Originally released as a non-album single, Stewart's version of "Downtown Train" was included on some editions of his 1991 album ''Vagabond Heart''. Other recordings Bob Seger also recorded a version of "Downtown Train" in 1989 before Rod Stewart recorded his version. Seger claimed that on a trip to London he told Rod Stewart he had recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Way Down In The Hole
"Way Down in the Hole" is a song written by the singer-songwriter Tom Waits. It was included on his 1987 album ''Franks Wild Years'', which was first presented as a stage production put on by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. The song was used as the theme for HBO's ''The Wire''. A different recording was used each season. Versions, in series order, were recorded by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Tom Waits, The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe, and Steve Earle. Season four's version, performed by the Baltimore teenagers Ivan Ashford, Markel Steele, Cameron Brown, Tariq Al-Sabir and Avery Bargasse, was arranged and recorded specifically for the show. An extended version of the Blind Boys of Alabama recording was played over a montage in the series finale. In 2004, music historian Kim Beissel said that the 1994 song " Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are a Rock music, rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by lead vocalist Nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnsburg, Illinois
Johnsburg is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, McHenry County, Illinois, with a population of 6,355 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. History The area that came to be known as Johnsburg was first settled in 1841, five years after the founding of McHenry County, by immigrant families escaping religious persecution and oppressive social conditions in the Eifel region of Germany, predominantly the Mayen-Koblenz." (The congregation is known today as St. John the Baptist.) They built their first church in 1842, a simple log cabin that also functioned as a school and meeting hall. The first priest to serve this new congregation was delivered there by friendly Native Americans who found him lost in the woods of Wisconsin. The church served the community until 1850, when a larger frame church was built to replace it. Construction on a third church, built in the Gothic architecture, Gothic style, began in 1867. This church took thirteen years to complete and was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bone Machine
''Bone Machine'' is the eleventh studio album by American singer and musician Tom Waits, released by Island Records on September 8, 1992. It won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and features guest appearances by David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain, and Keith Richards. The album marked Waits' return to studio albums, coming five years after ''Franks Wild Years'' (1987). Recorded in a room in the cellar area of Prairie Sun Recording studios, described by Waits as "just a cement floor and a hot water heater", the album is often noted for its rough, stripped-down, percussion-heavy style, as well as its dark lyrical themes revolving around death and decay. The album covera blurry, black-and-white, close-up image of Waits screaming while wearing a horned skullcap and protective goggleswas taken by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of Bob Dylan. The photo is taken from a freeze frame of the Dylan and Jim Jarmusch directed video for "Goin' Out West". They also directed a video for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" is a song by Tom Waits released as the first single from his 1985 album ''Rain Dogs''. It is featured in the films '' Down By Law'' (1986) and '' Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'' (1995). Personnel * Tom Waits - guitar, vocals * Stephen Arvizu Taylor Hodges - drums * Larry Taylor - double bass * Michael Blair - percussion, conga * Marc Ribot - guitar * Ralph Carney - bass sax(1985). ''Rain Dogs'' iner notes New York: Island Records. Cover versions "Jockey Full of Bourbon" has been covered by performers including Joe Bonamassa (on his 2009 album '' The Ballad of John Henry''), John P. Hammond, (on his 2001 album ''Wicked Grin''), Moxy Früvous (on their album '' Live Noise''), Moshav (on their album '' Misplaced''), Los Lobos, Youn Sun Nah, Diana Krall Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Time (Tom Waits Album)
''Big Time'' is the first conventional live album by American musician Tom Waits, featuring performances from two shows on Waits' 1987 tour. The album was released less than a year later on Island Records. While ''Big Time'' was the first released recording of public concert performances by Waits, it was not strictly his first live release: his 1975 ''Nighthawks at the Diner'' was a live performance before an audience that was conducted entirely within a recording studio. Background and production In efforts to promote '' Franks Wild Years'', Waits began a historic tour of North America and Europe in October 1987. The tour incorporated a theatrical aspect, as ''Franks Wild Years'' was based on a play written by Waits about his then-alter-ego, Frank O'Brien, who debuted on the track "Frank's Wild Years"on ''Swordfishtrombones''. Waits described O'Brien as: "Quite a guy. Grew up in a bird's eye frozen, oven-ready, rural American town where Bing, Bob, Dean, Wayne & Jerry are consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the American folk music, folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as Rock music, rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Tom Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Pomona, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk circuit. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His debut album was Closing Time (album), ''Closing Time'' (1973), followed by ''The Heart of Saturday Night'' (1974) and ''Nighthawks at the Diner'' (1975). He repeatedly toured the United States, Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
