Rain Dogs vs Tough/Green Dogs + logo guanyador del WOMEN don´t WAIT

Avui, 30 de setembre, fa 30 anys se publicava un dels discs més significatius de l´història musical contemporania:

Contrariament al que molts pensavem quan varem descubrir aquest discarro, el tipo de portada no és Tom Waits. Com bé sap Jaume Rebassa (lector habitual del bloc i comanager de Toni Monserrat Inc.) la foto d´Anders Petersen retrata a Rose i Lily, dins la sèrie de personatges gatons que habitaven dins el Café Lehmitz (proper al mític Reeperbahn d´Hamburg) a finals dels 60.

Durant els anys d´espera a Tom Waits a Mallorca, si no record malament se varen interpretar aquestes versions de cançons del disc Rain Dogs:

"Time"- Jenifer Jackson (Waiting For Waits 2002, amb ajuda de Marc Melià, llavors a El Diablo En el Ojo, als teclats)

"Hang down your head" - la gran LISA GERMANO (cap de cartell WFW 2003) a qui si tot va bé tendrem el juliol del 2016 al nou cicle musical WOMEN Don´t WAIT

 

"Clap Hands" - Hugo Race (2003 i 2006).

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TOUGH/GREEN DOG:

Un dels músics que va participar tan en la gravació com en la gira de RAIN DOGS va ser MARC RIBOT (guitarra en 7 dels 19 temes).

Ribot va participar (de mala gana?) en el cicle Waiting For Waits ("I gave up waiting for Waits" me deia quan el deixava a l´hotel després de recullir-lo a l´aeroport) l´any 2006.

Mesos abans, un dels membres de TIN HAT ja m´havia advertit:  "I´ve heard he is a TOUGH dog to hang around with..."

A més de "tough dog", era més raro que un ca verd (green dog).

Això sí: excepcional guitarrista, a pesar de la brutal estampida de gent que va fugir del seu experimental concert al Teatre Xesc Forteza.

Anècdota: la primera vegada que vaig "conversar" amb Marc Ribot va ser al Jazz Cafe de Londres l´any 2000 just abans del seu concert amb els Cubanos Postizos. presentant el disc Muy Divertido. Mentres me firmava càratules de discs, entre elles obviament la del Rain Dogs, li vaig demanar "how come you write with your left hand and play guitar with your right hand?". La seva resposta, crec recordar: "now you´ll understand my guitar style!". Geni i figura...

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GUANYADORS DE LES INVITACIONS pel  
CONCERT DEVON SPROULE + Zelisko Band

-JOANA VALL
-MIGUEL TRILLO

 

LOGO GUANYADOR: 

by "Rita Barberà"

D´altra banda, aprofitant tan significativa data, sortejam dues invitacions més entre lector(e)s que mos deixeu un comentari al bloc (o enviant un correu a orphans.of.waits@gmail.com) esmentant quina és la vostra cançó preferida del Rain Dogs i per qué. N´hi ha per triar...i és molt mal de fer triar!

Anit mos reunim una colla de fans del disc de Waits al mític i balearico Bar Sito de Son Fortesa. Per si voleu passar a fer un brindis i escoltar temarros com aquesta joia country...

VÍDEO "BLIND LOVE" (TOM WAITS; 1985 - RAIN DOGS)

Now you're gone, it's hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames
And I don't care if they miss me, I never remember their names
They say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home
Well, I'm at the station, and I can't get on the train

Must be blind love
Only kind of love is stone blind love
Blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
Oh, it's blind love
Stone blind love
It's your stone blind love

Now the street's turning blue, the dogs are barking and the night has come
And there's tears that are falling from your blue eyes now
I wonder where you are
And I whisper your name
The only way to find you is if I close my eyes

I'll find you with my blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
Oh, your blind love
Your stone blind love

It's your blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
Stone blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love
The only kind of love is stone blind love
Stone blind love
Stone blind love

Songwriters
Tom Waits

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Lyrics © Jalma Music

WOMEN For Waits (part two: 2006-2007)

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."  

Margaret Thatcher 

(again, Maggie was sometimes right...)

 

8 MARÇ - DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LES DONES 

If you want to check WOMEN For Waits part one (Waiting For Waits 2010, 2009 & 2008) you can click ->HERE<-

Segona entrega de cançons interpretades per dones que ens van ajudar a esperar Tom Waits a Mallorca, en les edicions del Waiting For Waits 2007 i 2006 (la primera entrega, amb les edicions del WFW 2010, 2009 i 2008, la podeu consultar fent clic ->AQUÍ<-)

1) Dayna Kurtz  - WFW2007 (x 2) 

Dues vegades va actuar a Palma l´any 2007, i les dues va penjar el cartell de "sold-out". El desembre al Teatre Xesc Forteza, i el febrer al Conservatori de Palma. 

La seva primera visita al Waiting For Waits havia estat l´estiu del 2004 (per recomenació d´Ignasi Julià del Ruta 66). 
I també va participar en la darrera edició del WFW (any 2010).

Aquest és un video d´un tema nou de la musa absoluta d´aquells 10 anys d´espera a Tom Waits...

If I Go First, DAYNA KURTZ ("Rise and Fall" - 2015) 

official video by Louie Ludwig 

2) Josephine Foster  - WFW2007 

Va actuar a Sa Congregació (Sa Pobla) el juliol de 2007, acompanyada de la seva parella: Victor Herrero

Video #2 - "Síntesis de la existencia" Josephine Foster 

amb els germans Victor & José Luis Herrero

3) Marissa Nadler  - WFW2007

Va actuar al Claustre del Convent de Muro  el juliol de 2007, telonejant Bill Elm/Friends Of Dean Martinez.

anècdota 1: doble concert per olvidar, en el que després de no dormir vaig enviar un mailing demanant disculpes als assistents...si en voleu una còpia crec que en Simó Vall (guitarrista de Toni Monserrat Inc., Murder In The Barn i BB Sin Sed) encara el guarda;

anècodota 2: Max també va assitir a aquell concert, i allà varem parlar del disseny del póster per l´edició següent (WFW 2008), sense saber encara que coincidiría amb la primera visita a Espanya de Tom Waits (com sabeu, a data d´avui el californià només ha actuat a Donosti i Barcelona). 

video #3 - "Drive" (Marissa Nadler; 2014)

4) Lisa Germano  - WFW2006

L´altra musa del WFW, que repetiría actuació a Mallorca després d´haver visitat el festival l´any 2003 (gràcies a Howe Gelb). Després del seu concert al novembre del 2006 al Conservatori de Palma, es va inflar a vendre discs

Per cert, va quedar pendent una col.laboració entre Lisa Germano i una altra gran dona: la nostra Mónica Fuster (www). 

A dia d´avui Lisa està molt pendent de cuidar dels seus pares, en edat avançada, però és ben segur que tard o d´hora tornarà visitar Mallorca...

Per mor d´una predilecció especial per ella, a continuació doble ració de videos-audio: un tema propi i un altre del deliciós àlbum que va gravar al seu dia amb l´esmentat Howe Gelb, Joey Burns i John Convertino (Giant Sand; Calexico)

video #4  "Lullaby For Liquid Pig" (Lisa Germano; 2003)

video #5 "Crackling Water" (OP8 feat. Lisa Germano; 1997)

5) Jesca Hoop  - WFW2006

Actuació al Claustre del Convent de Muro el juliol del 2006, telonejant Hugo Race (ex-Bad Seeds)

A continuació un video (#6) de l´entrevista (amb temes en directe) que un dia abans de l´actuació a Muro li va fer Joan Vich als estudis d´ IB3 Radio:

6) Carla Torgerson  - WFW2006

Va costar anys de converses amb Chris Eckman, fins que finalment es va cumplir el somni de tenir Chris & Carla (membres fundadors dels imprescindibles The Walkabouts) actuant a Mallorca com a caps de cartell de la que va ser sisena edició del Waiting For Waits.

A més va ser el primer concert del festival d´estiu que se va programar a l´imponent pati d´armes del Castell de Bellver.

Aprofitant que ahir va ser el 71 aniversari del naixement de Townes Van Zandt, a continuació video (#7) d´una maravellosa versió en directe de Chris & Carla del tema "Nothing" del trobador texà (tantes vegades reivindicat al bloc Orphans Of Waits):  

7) Aroah  - WFW2006

Algú sap que va ser d´Irene Tremblay?

video #8  "El Día Después" 

8) Jen Charlton  - WFW2006

Jen Charlton va actuar el febrer del 2006 al Centre de Cultura SA NOSTRA, telonejant Jason McNiff.

Vaig descubrir-la vegent una actuació seva al mític The 12 Bar, ubicat a l´igualment mítica Denmark St, que malhauradament ha hagut de tancar i traslladar-se fora del centre de Londres.

A continuació podeu escoltar el single que dona títol al seu darrer i recent àlbum:

 

video #8  "Blame It On My Family"

NOTA FINAL:

Com no pot ser d´altra manera, aquesta entrada del bloc Orphans Of Waits està dedicada a tots els seus lectors de sexe masculí (que al cap i a la fi són majoria; les dones no perden temps llegint dois)

L´any que vé: tercera entrega de WOMEN For Waits...

Neal Casal interview + Folk You! (la génesi del Waiting For Waits)

setembre/september 2000:

TIME OUT - London 

"Described by The Washington Post as "One of the best new songwriters of the year", Neal Casal is back at The Borderline (20th September) following his successful gig in May, promoting his new album, 'Anytime Tomorrow'"  

english / català

September 2000: at The Borderline (Soho- London) a part-time box-office attendant was required...

La tardor de l´any 2000, a una petita sala del Soho londinenc anomenada The Borderline hi havia penjat un fol amb el reclam: "PART TIME JOB - Box Office Attendant".

After buying a ticket for Neal Casal´s show (taking place the 20th September) I got a job that would last for about five years.

Després de pagar la meva entrada pel concert de Neal Casal que havia de tenir lloc el 20 de setembre (avui fa 14 anys), me varen donar aquella feina de caps de setmana que duraria uns cinc anys...

That precise moment was the starting point of the Majorcan music event Waiting For Waits (so thank you Neal and thank you The Borderline!).

En aquell moment es va sembrar, sense saber-ho, la llavor del Waiting For Waits (així que gràcies Neal Casal i gràcies The Borderline!).

WAITING FOR WAITS vs FOLK YOU!

In fact, because of a sticker that Neal Casal had on his acoustic guitar (actually a patch, as Neal mentions in the interview below), Waiting For Waits could have been named Folk You! instead...

A la seva guitarra, Neal hi tenia aferrat el que jo recordava com un adhesiu (si bé de fet era un "patch" (pegat?), com ell ens confirma a l´entrevista que podeu llegir a continuació) amb l´inscripció: "Folk You!".

Vaig pensar que seria un bon nom per una promotora musical, si bé finalment me decantaria pel beckettià Waiting For Waits.

La resta, com sabeu, ja és història...

NEAL CASAL INTERVIEW (english)

nota: si voleu una traducció al catalá o castellà de la següent entrevista, enviau un correu a orphans.of.waits@gmail.com

foto: Megan Kathleen McIsaac (www)

- Are you aware that you were somehow responsible for the beginning of Waiting for Waits? (you know the story…)

It's amazing to think that I was an integral part of this festival that we all loved so much. It´s quite an honor for me to know that.

- We almost gave the festival a different name: Folk You!, because of the sticker you had in your acoustic guitar that night you played in London fourteen years ago today!. Where did you get that sticker?

It's actually not a sticker but a patch, which I never sewed onto anything. I would just attach it to my guitar strap with a safety pin!!  I bought  that patch in a small vintage shop on Avenue A in the east village, New York City, in 1993. That patch has stayed with me for over 20 years, it's one of my prized possessions!. 

- What are your memories of your shows in Mallorca (first in 2003 with lovely Lisa Germano, and the following year sharing the bill with the great Chris Eckman)?

It was incredible and such an honor for me to discover Mallorca, it felt like entering a different world. The shows were always in really nice locations, the audiences were enthusiastic and attentive, and to share the stage with talents such as Lisa and Chris was just amazing.

- When did you discover Tom Waits? Which album? We have fond memories of the song cover you played using Lisa Germano´s electric guitar: "On the nickel"...

I'm not exactly sure what the first record was, maybe Nighthawks At The Diner. It just seemed to me that his music was always everywhere y'know?

But it was Heart Attack And Vine that really changed my life. That was the record that turned me into a Waits fanatic.

- Do you still keep that Neil Young HARVEST t-shirt that I gave you? It certainly looked better on you than on me!

 Of course I still have it, it's in the same drawer as my Folk You patch!

- Today we celebrate yet another anniversary related to Neal Casal: Leaving Traces (1994-2004 compilation; Fargo records) was released 10 years ago (20th September 2004).

After a solid 20 years solo career and your collaborations with some "big" names: what´s your own album you´re most proud of? Own song?. And collaboration?

I think Roots And Wings is my strongest collection of songs, 

but I guess Sweeten The Distance is my favorite overall record. "White Fence Round House" is one of my favorite of my own songs. 

As for collaborations, the new Chris Robinson Brotherhood record Phosphorescent Harvest is definitely my favorite.

- Last question: RUDY SESSIONS, who recently booked Graham Parker to play in Palma, would be interested in having you back to Mallorca. What about that, Neal?

Wow, that is so exciting, thank you for thinking of me again!. The idea if coming back to Mallorca is just amazing to me, can´t even believe it!

Next: video of Neal Casal playing his own favourite song two years ago at The Borderline backstage!

Com no podia ser d´altra manera, a continució un video de Neal Casal cantant fa dos anys la seva propia cançó preferida...al backstage de la sala The Borderline

Blood shot eyes in the morning
Wait to the day with a memory in my mind
A plane touches down and I can see those street lights
A plane touches down and I know it's time to fly
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave behind

It's so cold here in the evening
Wait till the dark that I've done my fire right
I feel such a fool and just keep waiting
I feel such a fool cause I know I still hope to find
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave
But I want you to take your time
Think it over
Stay a while, till
...taking me easy way out, easy way out

Star close the night, set the candle
Everybody frightened, it's the whole damn place alive
Come from all the father's preachers
Everybody looking for something, I hope they can find
One thing they can't leave behind
One thing they can't leave

Eyes fall open with the first...
Make my way down to the ocean burning...
Each day I'm constantly in a falling
Each day the current pulls me closer down to you
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave behind
One thing I can't leave
But I want you to take your time
Think it over
Stay a while, till
Just remember to take your time
and think it over
Stay a while, ill it shows
You're not taking the easy way out, easy way out
Not taking the easy way out
I can show you the easy way down

Blood shot eyes in the morning
Wait to the day with a memory in my mind

WOMEN For Waits (part one: 2008 -2010)

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."  

Margaret Thatcher (buuuf!)

(idò qualque vegada tenia raó, que voleu que vos digui...  

to be honest, Maggie was sometimes right...)

 

8 MARÇ - DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LES DONES 

Com suposadament el bloc musical d´Orphans Of Waits perdurarà alguns anys, aquesta és només una primera entrega de cançons interpretades per dones maravelloses que ens van ajudar a esperar a Tom Waits a Mallorca (primera entrega: les darreres edicions del WFW => 2010, 2009 i 2008)

1) Carla Kihlstedt (violinista de Tin Hat) - WFW2010 i 2005

vídeo-audio #1 - Tin Hat interpretant "Clap Hands" de Tom Waits:

2) Dayna Kurtz - WFW2010, 2007 i 2004

Una de les dues muses del WFW (juntament amb Lisa Germano).

Única artista en l´història del WFW que va actuar 4 vegades amb 3 sold-out! (a Muro al 2004, al conservatori de Palma a principis del 2007 i al Xesc Forteza a finals del 2007; la seva darrera actuació al WFW va ser al Teatre Principal de Palma al febrer de 2010).

Agraïment especial a Ignasi Julià (Ruta 66 - Tiempos de Rock & Roll) que a finals del 2003 va xerrar-li a Dayna del nostre festival, considerant-la una artista idònea per actuar-hi...va encertar de plé! (te dec una bona comisió, Ignasi, je,je)

vídeo-audio #2 el preciós tema de Dayna "Love Gets In The Way":

i've made love with one eye on the door
i've left good rooms with nothing to say
i wanted to love them
but love got in the way
i wanted to love them
but love gets in the way
and so what if everything's changed
and so what if i've held out for more
i'm all wild in places i wasn't before
i'm wild in places where i wasn't before
so come on and make a mess of me
i won't walk away
i'm ready as i'll ever be
i won't walk away
i want to be fed by you
i want to be led by you
i thought i wanted freedom
but love got in the way
i went looking for freedom
but love got in the way
so come on and make a mess of me
i won't walk away
i'm ready as i'll ever be
i won't walk away

3) Elana James (cantant i violinista de Hot Club Of Cowtown) WFW2009

Anècdota divertida: els membres de Hot Club Of Cowtown es van salvar de pagar excés d´equipatge amb easyjet (sleazyjet que solia dir Howe Gelb) per cantar-li una cançó a l´aeroport a l´al.lota que els hi facturava els vols a Palma!. Eren gent encantadora...

vídeo #3: H.C.O.C. interpretant "Long Way Home" de Tom Waits:

4) Jolie Holland - WFW 2009

vídeo (#4) de "Mexico City" (tal vegada la millor cançó publicada l´any 2008?).

Fixau-vos bé amb els llavis de na Jolie, en segons quins gestos semblen els de n´Elvis!...

Jack and Edie lying across my bed
Flying high like the spirits of the dead
The living and the dead, the living and the dead

Our Lady of Sorrows and the long dark night
How many candles could I light
For the living and the dead, the living and the dead?

What's that black smoke rising Jack, is the world on fire?
What's that distant singing, is it a heavenly choir?
Of the living and the dead, the living and the dead

I think about you Jack watching the TV
And drinking booze, shame on you, shame on me
But how can we help it there was no where else to go
I sent Julie and Billy out on that long hard road
On that long hard road, on that long hard road

I'm just back from Mexico city
I came back north to Texas to rest my weary head
My true love is fresh from the battle field
Sewing up the dying and carting off the dead
My baby don't stand no fighting amongst the living or the dead

What's that black smoke rising Jack, is the world on fire?
What's that distant singing, is it a heavenly choir?
Of the living and the dead, the living and the dead
The living and the dead, the living and the dead
The living and the dead, the living and the dead

Songwriters
Jolie Holland

Published by
BOX TREE MUSIC;RAM ISLAND SONGS 

5) Dawn Landes - WFW2008

anècdota: el mateix dia que Dawn Landes (i Devon Sproule, veure a continuació) actuava al Centre de Cultura "Sa Nostra" de Palma, Tom Waits ho feia a Barcelona.

vídeo (#5) del tema que dona nom al seu nou àlbum: "Bluebird"

 (sorry Dawn: didn´t find the lyrics on internet!; if you want to provide them you can email us. good luck with the new album!)

pd-lletres de Bluebird a la secció comentaris!

6) Devon Sproule - WFW2008

Devon es va inflar a vendre cds després de la seva actuació, on va conquerir al públic amb una desbordant simpatia. L´acompanyava a l´escenari un dels meus instrumentistes favorits: el sol.licitadíssim B.J. Cole (veure www)

vídeo (#6) Devon Sproule amb el seu marit Paul Curreri al show the Jools Holland interpretant el meu tema favorit del seu repertori: "Old Virginia Block"

If my ears hear a sigh of a shiny red violin
Clear by the Rivanna, down in the Blue Ridge.
By the dog bags and trash, by the bottles and cans
And the dead beat brown grass
and the red dirt in the Blue Ridge
Then my home must be around another good old Virginia block.
If my ears hear a note on the cello, so low, then a double stopping bow,
from my headphones, in the Blue Ridge.
Out walking at noon, appearing under the white of the daytime moon,
keeping my big blue balloon in my tight fist, in the Blue Ridge.
Then my home must be around another good old Virginia block.
If my ears hear the sound of a slate rock on the ground,
clicking the drops of the rain coming down, along a front walk, in the Blue Ridge
The rim of dirt on the brim of a brow, the skin of sweat on the handle of a plow,
Miles and miles of tobacco in the south, from a back road, in the Blue Ridge
Then my home must be around another good old Virginia block.
I've got family in Canada, family in New York
I've got friends in every other place I've played
But I can't keep from planting all my plans of family stuff
Down between the weeds in the red dirt clay
And where my ears hear a hundred bees riding that upwarding breeze,
a veil and a bucket by a pair of oak trees,
just another blond kid, in the Blue Ridge.
It's all to make a pattern of love, to roost a lava field of white doves,
with just a pitch fork and a pair of thick gloves,
for your whole life, in the Blue Ridge
The pick up and go - the bent back and the grunt-chucked coal,
The gleam of your white underclothes, in the back seat, in the Blue Ridge
The pile of bacon by a couple fried eggs, kiss marks and hearts on a picnic table leg,
The quartet fretting on up in my head, on my long walk, through the Blue Ridge.
And my home comes up around another good old Virginia block.

7) Eilen Jewell - WFW2008

Sempre serà un orgull per Waiting For Waits que el debut a Espanya d´Eilen Jewell (aviat entrarà en el club de les grans dames de l´Americana junt amb Lucinda Williams i Gillian Welch) fos al teatre Xesc Forteza de Palma.

FOTO: ERIK JACOBS

vídeo (#7) de "Santa Fe" 

vos ben assegur que amb els anys serà considerada una les millors cançons d´Americana de tots els temps(si no ho és ja!)

You picked up a broken bottle
In case anyone gave us any trouble
And we walked all the way back to Cortez
You sang help me dear doctor
At the top of your lungs
You'd been soaking up drink like a sponge
Little boy down the street
We all heard you mournfully
Call again and again for Roberta
Roberta…
The mountain towns burned red
Consumed by a sunset
I'd be happy disappearing under colors like that
And I fell in love with trains,
Haunted by the old refrain
You ride the Southern, I'll ride the Santa Fe
Santa Fe…
It was wrong of me to leave
'Cause I couldn't stand a perfect thing
But I was too young to know any better
And I'd give the world if it were mine
To let these memories slip my mind
And wake up next to you one more time
One more time…

Segona entrega al 2015:  Josephine Foster, the one and only Lisa Germano,  Jesca Hoop, etc...