Why is tom waits voice

Video: YouTube. Someday I'd like to play a coal miner or a snake charmer or something. But I also think, inside your voice, there are other voices that you have yet to discover and that's kind of why you are here.

Even for someone with a body of work as immense and influential as Tom Waits, the way that songs appear is mysterious and mystical. The pops and clicks you get from vinyl is almost exactly the sound of chicken barbecuing on the grill. It's a rather mysterious process. I think some songs come out of the ground just like a potato and you wonder how it was so simple. Somebody told me songs are either really easy to write, or they're impossible. Given the rich sounds that have been woven around the arrangements of Waits' songs over the past four decades, his love of sound — not necessarily music — in film isn't a huge surprise.

They'll take a pack of Lifesavers and put the mic really close to it and chomp down on the Lifesavers and it's the sound of breaking bones. Despite contesting that there is so much he doesn't know about the way songs come about, Waits still offers a brilliant piece of advice that. Regardless of what your plan is, the song itself has a plan of its own. There's the deep, gruff voice on things like 'Underground', all the way to the high voice on tunes like 'Temptation', and several other voices in between.

Feb 26, 9. Posts: 22, Feb 26, Posts: 7, Ran into him actually it was Kathleen first while I was nursing a beer watching the local team in the WS. If he was putting on a different voice, you coulda fooled me. I've seen him live a few times too. I ain't complaining. It's a great memory for me. Age: 64 Posts: Cool story Bender The authenticity thing is an interesting thing to think about I enjoy Waits because his songs--his imagination--almost always takes me someplace I can't remember where I heard or read that Waits about ruined his voice and his overall health with cigarettes and booze.

I'm glad he came out the other side. When his voice started getting gruff and gravelly, I figured he was trying to channel Louis Armstrong.

But Mule Variations has got to be one of my favorite records of all time. Closing Time was the first record of his I bought, I could not get into it. Posts: 17, I emphasize with my classical composition students that they can use the concept of a persona to help them zero in on specifics and form.

I do it in blues all the time. It's a heck of a lot of fun. That said, I have never like Waits's persona, as it just seemed way beyond beyond the way what a person of his age would act. Similarly, Kiss, make-up wearing and, hair bands were just stupid. Slight change in subject. There's a YouTube clip out there of John Mayer and his blues-based trio.

The change in his tone is clearly defined by the partnership of these two. Pre-Kathleen smooth, post-Kathleen gnarly. I love 'em both Sounds incredible. Carserguev likes this. Location: Los Angeles, CA. He's also thirty years older now RDK , Jan 13, Location: Colorado. Old Golds are pretty tame, thought he went for the Chesterfield non-filters.

First they make you hoarse, then they kill you Patrick , Jan 13, Location: Somewhere in Oklahoma. I've never really liked Tom Wait's voice or lack there of too much. It's not so much the 'roughness' of it as it is the delivery.

Greatest Hits , Jan 13, Location: Chicagoland. I'm only posting because of my avatar! It should be here. Seriously, Waits quit drinking and smoking years ago. So I don't think that's all there is to it. Who know's? It's a great voice, I don't care what my wife says! Joe Koz , Jan 13, Location: Detroit, Michigan. Well, age and cigarettes did a number on Joni Mitchell's voice, so maybe they did the same but worse to Tom Waits.

Jose Jones , Jan 13, Location: Richmond, VA. I agree with John Moschella, this difference is basically a stylistic choice.