Its almost 40 years since Tom Waits debut record, & during a career that, for most fans, has quite simply gotten better, more exciting & more challenging with each new release, he is surely the only performer & writer from the rock age to be consistently satisfying while remaining as difficult to predict as the weather. This double DVD set reviews Toms career from his pre-contract days when he worked as a struggling songwriter, right through his Island years & his experimental phase bringing the story up to date with his most recent records. With the aid of plentiful archive, rare footage, interviews with the man himself plus contributions from his nearest colleagues, this set comes as close as its possible to get in tracking the true Tom Waits & revealing quite what it is that has made this extraordinary artist the maverick he truly remains.
Includes:: brand new interviews with producer Bones Howe, biographer Barney Hoskyns, collaborator Jerry Yester, ex-Village.. .