Description: Swordfishtrombones, Paperback by Smay, David, ISBN 0826427820, ISBN-13 9780826427823, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones andform the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasnt working. But at his low point, he got the phone call that changed everything: Francis Ford Coppola tapped Tom to write the score for One From the Heart. Waits moved back to Los Angeles to work at Zoetropes Hollywood studio for the next 18 months. He cleaned up, disciplined himself as a songwriter and musician, collaborated closely with Coppola, and met a script analyst named Kathleen Brennan - his "only true love".
They married within 2 months at the Always and Forever Yours Wedding Chapel at 2am. Swordfishtrombones was the first thing Waits recorded after his marriage, and it was at Kathleens urging that he made a record that conceded exactly nothing to his record label, or the critics, or his fans. There arent many love stories where the happy ending sounds like a paint can tumbling in an empty cement mixer.
Kathleen Brennan was sorely disappointed by Toms record collection. She forced him out of his comfortable jazzbo pocket to take in foreign film scores, German theatre, and Asian percussion. These two stories of a man creating that elusive American second act, and also finding the perfect collaborator in his wifegive this book a natural forward drive.
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Book Title: Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones
Number of Pages: 143 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication Year: 2007
Topic: History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 4.7 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: David Smay
Book Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
