Innocent When You Dream

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 440 in Publisher: Orion 'I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three. and it's never helped me' Tom Waits. Born. seemingly. in the back of a taxi cab outside a hospital in California. in December 1949. the young Tom Waits graduated through the jobs of janitor. dishwasher and cook to the position of doorman at a small LA club. Existing on a diet of whiskey. cigarettes and beat writing. he now added folk and jazz to his formative influences. In 1969. Captain Beefheart manager Herb Cohen discovered him - and five years later he released his first album. Closing Time. a record soaked in equal parts bourbon and melancholy.