Mama Miriama Band

It is not easy to approach the figure of one of the most prominent artists that has given the twentieth century and the United States. Speaking of Tom Waits is doing, especially the character he has created since its inception. A bohemian type, night owl, who lives in perfect nostalgic night of alcohol and well watered. Could also be a drifter who is steeped in all the stories you see, they tell and live. A loser makes unique stories of their losses on the unknown parts of the soul. A journalist, an observer, a rake or a mad genius. Tom Waits can be all that, but the fact is that intimate and personal life we ??know very little. Has managed to retain and preserve their privacy intact and impenetrable, despite the various attempts at biographies shelf life, which undoubtedly has helped to indemnify its charming aura of mystery.

His influences are known and evident in his work. The Beat Generation on the one hand, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughts as essential reference and a neat and careful amalgam of Delta blues, jazz, cabaret, vaudeville and a pinch of pop-rock of what Americans call “songwriter”. In his music there is some Fats Waller, Oscar Levant, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Kurt Weill, Howlin ‘Wolf, Thelonius Monk, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Captain Beefheart, Louis Armstrong and many others, but fundamentally Waits has been able to create Over the years a unique and personal, as well reinvent itself continuously.

Tom Waits makes an epic disappointment, bitterness and a sweet story of sarcasm and humor a tender story. Because Waits is, above all, a creator of genres, a true sage who knows the soul of the American musical tradition more deeply. His career is also a continued refusal to comfort, because his belated success was due more to the freedom with which he faced his recordings to stay in a place known and friendly. Listening-and reading-is also an exercise of reflection and consciousness, because you away from habitual patterns and immerses you in an uncomfortable world, ugly at times but also full of tenderness and great stories.