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Curiosities from Tom Waits

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Waits' Curiosities from the limited edition photo and musings book WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11, out now.

Here is a list of stores in North America where you can get the book.

Hennessey and Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA

Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA

Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA

Arcana, Culver City, CA

San Diego Museum of Art

Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA

Keplers, Palo Alto, CA

Diesel: A Bookstore , Oakland, CA

Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA

Book People, Austin, TX

University of Calgary Books

Wexner Center, Minneapolis, MN

Farleys, New Hope, PA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

After Words Books, Chicago, IL

A Cappella Books, Atlanta, GA

Rizzoli Bookstore, New York, NY

Clic Gallery, New York, NY

Bookcourt, Brooklyn, NY

Greenlight, Brooklyn, NY

Type Books, Toronto

Lileo, Toronto

Oscars, Vancouver

Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

New England Mobile Book Fair, Brookline, MA

Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA

Books & Books, Miami Beach

If you don't see a store listed in your area call your local bookstore and special order the book.

Click here to order online.

The Rolling Stones' official take on Tom Waits' guest appearance at their Oracle Arena show, Sunday May 5th

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Check out a fan’s view of Tom Waits performing “ Little Red Rooster” with the Rolling Stones at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on May 5th

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

International press for WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Check out US, UK and European press and photos for Waits/Corbijn photo and curiosities book out tomorrow, May 8th.

La Repubblica, Italy

“Una Vita Con Waits”

Tom Waits ha 64 anni, compiuti
il 7 dicembre, ma potrebbe
averne 102 o 21, non
farebbe tanta differenza. Lo
scorrere del tempo, il cambiare
delle stagioni e delle
mode non lo riguardano: la
musica che crea, le canzoni
che canta, gli strumenti che
suona, non hanno alcuna relazione
con l’oggi. E non si tratta di snobismo, non è
un rifiuto della modernità tecnologicamente intesa, o
di un rapporto completo con la contemporaneità.

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de Volkskrant, Netherlands

Een luxury item noemt Tom Waits het boek dat hij en Anton Corbijn hebben samengesteld, de in een gelimiteerde oplage van 6.600 exemplaren verschijnende vrucht van hun ruim 35-jarige samenweking Wait/Corbijn '77-'11. Corbijn achter de fotocamera, Waits ervoor. Maar het boek is meer dan luxe: een monument van en voor twee eigengereide creatieve geesten met een talent dat zich meer uitkristalliseert naarmate ze het graf dichter naderen - om het in Waits' zwartgallig ironische woorden te zeggen.

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DeMorgen Magazine, Belgium

Eén kwade genius die een andere
fotografeert. Meer is er niet nodig
voor een sublime boek. Anton
Corbijn meets Tom Waits: 33 jaar
vriendschap in machtige foto’s

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London Sunday Times Magazine, UK

Back in the grim but glorious days of 1978, a young Dutch photographer named Anton Corbijn arrived in Los Angeles. It was his first trip to America. He took a taxi to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard. Stepping out of the cab, he found Tom Waits sitting on the sidewalk.
“It was,” he recalls, savouring the memory, “a Hollywood dream come true.”
He shouldn’t have been surprised. The Tropicana, now sadly gone, was to LA what the Chelsea Hotel was and is to New York — rock’n’roll central. There’s no point in listing the people who stayed there because everybody stayed there. Tom was a permanent resident; he lived in a bungalow round the back.

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Aftenposten K, Norway

Tom Waits og fotograf Anton Corbijn
har hengt sammen siden de traff hverandre
på The Tropicana Motel i Los Angeles i 1976.
Resultatet av vennskapet er nå blitt til en tykk
fotobok, hvor også Waits’ egne bilder er
inkludert.– Et dokument over både Antons og
min karrière, det var ideen, sier Tom Waits.

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Time Magazine

Anton Corbijn took his first photographs of singer-songwriter Tom Waits in Holland in 1977. Thirty-six years later, the duo- who've been collaborating ever since- have released Waits/Corbijn, a coffee-table book featuring more than 200 pages of Corbijn's portraits (including one of Waits in Monte Rio, Calif., in 2006, above) as well as some 0 pages of musings and photos taken by Waits.

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Stern Magazine, Germany

Sechs Uhr morgens, die Wohnung
ist leer, die Frau hat
einen verlassen, das Konto
ist gesperrt, und alles, was
einem bleibt, ist ein warmes
Bier. Und man selbst.
Der Optimist denkt jetzt, „endlich
allein“, und fühlt sich so, wie Tom
Waits aussieht. Schon immer aussah.
Glücklich vom Lastwagen überfahren
sozusagen. Es gibt keinen
anderen Sänger, Musiker, Blues-
Poeten und Schauspieler in einer
Person, dessen Gesicht, Blick und
Stimme den sarkastischen Schalk
des Lebens inniger ausdrückt als

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Interview Magazine

To hear gravel-voiced beatnik troubadour Tom Waits tell it, the process by which he and his longtime friend, the photographer, designer, and director Anton Corbijn, have collaborated over the years has been pretty simple. "Anton brings the camera," Waits says. "I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant." Their new book, Waits/Corbijn '77-'11, out this month from Schirmer/Mosel, comprises dozens of photographs that Corbijn has taken of Waits over the past three and a half decades, offering an intimate glimpse into the evolution of both men as creative co-conspirators and highly individual artists. The book also includes 51 pages of material contributed by Waits himself, including curiosities such as photos of oil stains, birds, and chalkboard menus; lists of famous suicides, train stations, and potential band names; and notes that read like poems. We sent Waits an e-mail asking about how he and Corbijn compiled the material for the book. We weren't expecting such a wide-ranging reply—but coming from Tom Waits, it didn't surprise us, either.

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Die Zeit, Germany

Wer sich der Kameralinse eines Fotografen ausliefert, beweist Vertrauen. Ein Bild, im Bruchteil einer Sekunde geschossen, kann Jahrzehnte überdauern, das Image einer prominenten Person mitbestimmen. Meist liegt die Verantwortung dabei in den Händen eines Fremden, nicht so bei Tom Waits: Mehr als dreißig Jahre lang ließ er sich von Anton Corbijn porträtieren, beide verbindet die Liebe zum Schwarz-Weiß-Bild. Gut 200 Fotografien sowie Skizzen und Kuriositäten von Waits zeigt der limitierte Band Waits/Corbijn '77-'11, der bei Schirmer/Mosel erscheint.

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Toronto Star

Tom Waits doesn’t advertise himself as a gentleman of great vanity, but his long, proud history of shrewdly cultivated multimedia strangeness has left little doubt that he knows how to pose for a picture.

It’s a talent that manifested itself fairly early on, apparently, and even in situations where Waits didn’t actually know he was on camera. Among the 145 portraits of Waits taken by esteemed photographer Anton Corbijn over the past three decades and gathered together in the lavish new coffee-table book Waits/Corbijn: ’77-’11are a few snapped on the sly backstage during a tour stop in Holland 36 years ago when Waits, then 27, was unaware that his effortlessly and unconsciously cool image was being committed to film by a budding young master of the craft

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The Rolling Stones and Tom Waits performing 'Little Red Rooster' live at the Oracle Arena

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Vulture Velocity

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

A vulture shares his view on in- flight dining with Tom Waits in this excerpt from Waits' Curiosities section of the upcoming May 8th WAITS /CORBIJN limited edition photo and musings book.

New York Times Sunday Magazine Piece

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:04:00 -0700

Check out the NY Times Sunday Magazine photo essay on the 36 year collaboration between Waits and Corbijn that spawned their upcoming May 8th photo book here.

Sunday London Times Magazine Article and Select Images From “WAITS/CORBIJN ’77 – ‘11”

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:04:00 -0700

Tomato Seeds (Tom Waits)

Monsters On The Sidewalk (Tom Waits)

California, Dillon Beach, 2002 (Anton Corbijn)

Tom Waits: Growling Through the Grain

Sunday Times, 14 April 2013

Back in the grim but glorious days of 1978, a young Dutch photographer named Anton Corbijn arrived in Los Angeles. It was his first trip to America. He took a taxi to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard. Stepping out of the cab, he found Tom Waits sitting on the sidewalk.

“It was,” he recalls, savouring the memory, “a Hollywood dream come true.”

He shouldn’t have been surprised. The Tropicana, now sadly gone, was to LA what the Chelsea Hotel was and is to New York — rock’n’roll central. There’s no point in listing the people who stayed there because everybody stayed there. Tom was a permanent resident; he lived in a bungalow round the back.

Click here here. to read more.

Anton Corbijn To Open "Waits/Corbijn '77 - '11" Exhibition On May 5th In Amsterdam

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:03:00 -0700

On May 5th, WAITS/CORBIJN ’77 –’11, a limited edition book by Anton Corbijn and Tom Waits will be presented for the first time at &Foam the project space of Foam, the Photography Museum Amsterdam. To celebrate the book release, there will be an exhibition of unique material on display, allowing an insight into the book’s creative process and how this collaboration came to fruition. Anton Corbijn will be present at the event on May 5th to sign copies, ahead of the book’s worldwide release on the 8th of May. The presentation is organized by Foam, which since opening its doors in 2001, has established itself as one of Europe’s primary venues for photography. Foam has hosted solo exhibitions by key names in international photography, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Annie Leibovitz and Anton Corbijn, whose major exhibition of recent work “Inwards and Onwards” was Foam's highest attended show to date.

Click here to pre-order the book.

For more information on the presentation visit:
http://www.foam.org/press/2013/books-foam

For more information on the book visit:
www.waits-corbijn.com

Exclusive First Listen of "Son of Rogues Gallery" at NPR

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:02:00 -0800

Hear the Tom Waits' and Keith Richards' track, the classic sea chanty "Shenandoah," and have an exclusive first listen to the entire double album, ‘Son of Rogues Gallery’ at http://n.pr/156yvYa

Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn to Release a Collaborative Photographic Book "Waits/Corbijn '77-'11"

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for a May 8th release in US and Europe by renowned German publisher Schirmer-Mosel. The coffee table art book not only features over 200 pages of Waits’ portraits taken by Corbijn over four decades, but also includes over 50 pages of the first published collection of musings and photographs taken by Waits himself. The linen bound book has introductions written by film director Jim Jarmusch, and the longtime music critic Robert Christgau.

WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-’11 is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that reaches back more than 35 years, to those first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977. Corbijn would go on to acclaim for his iconic enigmatic portraits of musicians and other artists—from U2 and Miles Davis to Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood to Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter—also becoming a designer, a pioneer in music video and more recently, an award-winning director of feature films. By 1977, Tom Waits was already known world-wide for a series of stunning, timeless albums, filled with songs of a noir-tinged Los Angeles that owed as much to writers like John Fante and Jack Kerouac as it did to jazz, blues and tin-pan alley that had soaked into Waits’ pores from childhood. Ahead of Waits lay his partnership with Kathleen Brennan—leading to such touchstone recordings as Rain Dogs and Mule Variations—his film work with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Jarmusch, and his stage projects with legendary director Robert Wilson.

In those first photographs, then, are the seeds of these two intertwined careers, feeding off each other. Waits’ vibrant persona helped Corbijn define his narrative, cinematic style of still photography: images that felt as if you were coming in on the middle of some unfolding drama. Corbijn complimented Waits’ theatrical side in a way that synced beautifully with the experimental music he was making with Brennan. “Anton picks up a small black box, points it at you and all the leaves fall from the trees. The shadows now are long and scary, the house looks completely abandoned and I look like a handsome… undertaker. I love working with Anton, he’s someone with a real point of view. Believe me, I won’t go jumping off rocks wearing only a Dracula cape for just anyone,” Waits says.
Waits’ own photography, collected here for the first time under the title “Curiosities,” gives a visual handle to the artistic intelligence millions of fans know only through his music.

Photographs of Tom Waits by Anton Corbijn, photographs by Tom Waits of the vivid quotidian, stretching down through the years and presented for the first time in a beautiful clothbound book; side by side, these 226 images record one of the longest and most fruitful collaborations in the careers of both artists. “It’s rare”, Corbijn says, “to take photographs of someone over a 30+ year period. Our work together developed totally organically and that’s a beauty in itself. We are very serious about our work but when it comes to working together, we’re like children resisting maturity. It’s liberating and a much needed legal drug.”

Waits/Corbijn ’77-‘11
Photographs by Anton Corbijn
Curiosities by Tom Waits
Texts by Jim Jarmusch and Robert Christgau
Limited edition of 6.600 w/slipcase
272 pages, 226 color and duotone plates
ISBN 978-3-8296-0555-7

Waits/Corbijn ’77-‘11 is now available for pre-order:
www.tomwaitsstore.com

Further reading www.waits-corbijn.com

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Hear Tom Waits and Keith Richards sing Shenandoah

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

Tom Waits' and Keith Richards' New Recording of "Shenandoah" Premieres on NPR’s All Songs Considered

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

The hymn like ballad is streaming at http://n.pr/V8TDt1 and is the first track available from the upcoming 2-disc compilation, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys produced by Hal Willner.

The ballad has a storied lore, first believed to have been sung by Missouri River boatmen before making its way to the sea and popularity in the 1880’s.

The entire 2-disc compilation will be released February 19th on Anti Records. Its 36 songs features an eclectic array of performers including; Shane Macgowan, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Macy Gray, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Chuck E. Weiss, Marianne Faithfull and Executive Producer, Johnny Depp.

Photo by Danny Clinch (Tom Waits)
Photo by Jane Rose (Keith Richards)

Tom Waits on The Simpsons 1/6/13

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

Tom Waits guest stars on The Simpsons Sunday, January 6 on Fox. Check your local listings for channel and time.

'Woyzeck' Review: Tragedy Triumphs

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:12:00 -0800

Congrats to the Shotgun Players' triumphant staging of Buchner's classic piece Woyzeck with music by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits.

Tom Waits' 2002 recording BLOOD MONEY is a collection of the songs from the award winning stage production of Woyzeck by avant director Robert Wilson, Waits and Brennan. Read more at this link.

Tom Waits Grammy Nomination!

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:12:00 -0800

Congratulations to Tom Waits who received the seventh Grammy nomination of his decades long career for his critically lauded and first Billboard "Top Ten Album," BAD AS ME.

"Best Alternative Music Album" category has been a head scratcher since its 1991 inception, regarded as a slot for respected artists whose work defies labels. Waits' first Grammy, for the avant garde industrial 1992 album, Bone Machine, was the second album to be awarded in the category. The jubilant reinvented blues and roots rocking album, Bad As Me is fitting tribute to this genre defying artist.

As the New York Times' Jon Pareles said in his review of Bad As Me: "At 61 Mr. Waits is acclaimed as an American marvel: a songwriter who can be smart and primal, raucous and meticulous, ethereal and earthy, bleak and comical…Waits is cherished by his generation of musicians as skillful songwriter and uncompromising outsider…Now indie- rockers study him, emulating not only his rasp and growl vocals and spiky arrangements, but also his self guided career path."

Waits reunited with veteran guitarists Keith Richards, Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, and bassist Larry Taylor and his son, drummer Casey Waits for Bad As Me. The album also featured his first studio recording with bass player Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and legendary Texan keyboardist Augie Meyers, member of Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados.

Chris Blum Art Exhibit

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:09:00 -0700

Check out Chris Blum, director of Waits' concert film, BIG TIME, at his first LA art exhibit.

Click here for more info.

The Simpsons

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:08:00 -0700

Tom will be making a guest appearance on a future episode of The Simpsons. Read the full story here.

Seven Psychopaths

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:08:00 -0700

Tom Waits has a small role in Martin McDonagh's Oct. 12th release Seven Psychopaths. Check out trailer here…..

Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:08:00 -0700

"Hell Broke Luce" from the album Bad As Me, Anti Records 2011

Directed By Matt Mahurin