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    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
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    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

    By Jay S. Jacobs

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    Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller. Inspiration. Drunk. Visionary. Tom Waits is all of these things.

    Waits is the lifeline between the great Beat poets and today’s rock & roll heroes. He’s old enough to be your dad and cool enough to be your hero. One of the few truly original musicians recording today, he’s also the rare singer who can actually act, and he has put together a respectable body of work in movies.

    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits retraces the long road that Waits has traveled and explores the music that made him a legend. Jay S. Jacobs looks at the towering myth that Waits has created for himself.

    Jay S. Jacobs follows the fate of one of America’s pre-eminent artists, a very private man whose career embodies a quirky array of fulfillment and loss, beauty and strangeness.

    This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter, with insight on Waits’ career in the 21st century thus far, as well as the most complete discography available in print. Tom’s Wild Years – a poignant, revealing celebration of the man and all his myths.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateMay 10, 2006
    ISBN9781554902613
    Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

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      What made this book so great?

      Tom. Waits.

      Hopefully there will be another addendum soon.
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