Множество жизней Тома Уэйтса

Потому что именно в этом правда: домой вернуться невозможно. Туда не отвезет ни поезд, ни автомобиль, только, быть может, память… Быть может, память, навеянная песней. Песней, которая уносит тебя в конкретное время или в нужное место. Песня, которая отвезет тебя к девушке или к тому времени, в котором ты впервые ее услышал. Но не любая песня, а песня, сделанная мастером и сделанная надолго. Песня, которую высек один из вымирающего племени мастеров — Томас Алан Уэйтс. Подлинный оригинал. Американский оригинал.

Вот уже более сорока лет он дерзко ломится вперед собственным, ни на что не похожим путем. Как Чарли Вэррик, персонаж Уолтера Маттау из одноименного фильма, вышедшего на экраны в год дебюта Уэйтса, певец остается «Последним из независимых». Уэйтс живет по своим собственным правилам, в свое собственное время и для своих собственных целей. Ну, а что касается нас, то если мы знаем, что для нас по-настоящему хорошо, то будем только рады ждать.

Дискография

CLOSING TIME (1973)

Оl' 55; I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You; Virginia Avenue; Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards); Midnight Lullaby; Martha; Rosie; Lonely; Ice Cream Man; Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love); Grapefruit Moon; Closing Time

THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT (1974)

New Coat Of Paint; San Diego Serenade; Semi Suite; Shiver Me Timbers; Diamonds On My Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night; Fumblin' With The Blues; Please Call Me, Baby; Depot Depot; Drunk On The Moon; The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)

NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER (1975)

Emotional Weather Report; On A Foggy Night; Eggs & Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson); Better Off Without A Wife; Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street); Warm Beer And Cold Women; Putnam County; Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission); Nobody; Big Joe & Phantom 309; Spare Parts II

SMALL CHANGE (1977)

Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen); Step Right Up; Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug And Artie); I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward); The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King); Invitation To The Blues; Pasties & A G-String (At The Two O'clock Club); Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell); The One That Got Away; Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own.38); I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS (1977)

Cinny's Waltz; Muriel; I Never Talk To Strangers; Medley: Jack & Neal/ California, Here I Come; A Sight For Sore Eyes; Potter's Field; Burma Shave; Barber Shop; Foreign Affair

BLUE VALENTINE (1978)

Somewhere; Red Shoes By The Drugstore; Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis; Romeo Is Bleeding; $29.00; Wrong Side Of The Road; Whistlin' Past The Graveyard; Kentucky Avenue; A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun; Blue Valentines

HEARTATTACK & VINE (1980)

Heartattack & Vine; In Shades; Saving All My Love For You; Downtown; Jersey Girl; Til The Money Runs Out; On The Nickel; Mr Siegal; Ruby's Arms

BOUNCED CHECKS (1981)

Heartattack & Vine; Jersey Girl; Eggs & Sausage; I Never Talk To Strangers; The Piano Has Been Drinking; Whistlin' Past The Graveyard; Mr Henry; Diamonds On My Windshield; Burma Shave; Tom Trauberts Blues

ONE FROM THE HEART (1982)

Opening Montage (Tom's Piano Intro; Once Upon A Town; The Wages Of Love); Is There Any Way Out Of This Dream?; Picking Up After You; Old Boyfriends; Broken Bicycles; I Beg Your Pardon; Little Boy Blue; Instrumental Montage (The Tango; Circus Girl); You Can't Unring A Bell; This One's From The Heart; Take Me Home; Presents (The 2004 reissue included two «previously unreleased bonus tracks» — Candy Apple Red; Once Upon A Town/ Empty Pockets)

SWORDFISHTROMBONES (1983)

Underground; Shore Leave; Dave The Butcher; Johnsburg, Illinois; 16 Shells From A 30.6; Town With No Cheer; In The Neighbourhood; Just Another Sucker On The Vine; Frank's Wild Years; Swordfishtrombone; Down, Down, Down; Soldier's Things; Gin Soaked Boy; Trouble Braids; Rainbirds

ASYLUM YEARS (1984)

Ol' 55; Martha; Rosie; Shiver Me Timbers; San Diego Serenade; Diamonds On My Windshield; (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night; The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House); Small Change; Tom Traubert's Blues; Step Right Up; Burma Shave; Foreign Affair; Mr Henry; The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me); Potter's Field; Kentucky Avenue; Somewhere; On The Nickel; Ruby's Arms

RAIN DOGS (1985)

Singapore; Clap Hands; Cemetery Polka; Jockey Full Of Bourbon; Tango Till They're Sore; Big Black Mariah; Diamonds And Gold; Hang Down Your Head; Time; Rain Dogs; Midtown; 9th & Hennepin; Gun Street Girl; Union Square; Blind Love; Walking Spanish; Downtown Train; Bride Of Rain Dogs; Anywhere I Lay My Head

FRANK'S WILD YEARS (1987)