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...

Nacho Vegas 40 vs Orphans Of Waits 1 (9 desembre 2014)

català / castellano

Com sabeu Nacho Vegas, que dia 09/12/14 va cumplir 40 anys, va ser entrevistat per Orphans Of Waits el passat mes de març en record de la seva participació en un concert-tribut a Townes Van Zandt / N.V. , que hace unos días cumplía 40 años, fue entrevistado por este blog el pasado mes de marzo, en recuerdo de su participación en Palma en un concierto-tributo a TVZ.

Una de les preguntes que li vaig enviar l´havia reservada, per motius que tot d´una entendreu, per aquestes dates. Aquí la teniu: / Una de las preguntas formuladas la dejamos intencionadamente en el tintero...aquí la teneis:

 

- O.O.W.:  Este año en Orphans Of Waits repasaré mis discos favoritos de 1974 (el año en que nací). Tú también eres del 74, y además se da la circunstancia de que tu 40 aniversario (09/12/2014) coincidirá con el primer aniversario de este blog. Así pues,  pregunta obligada: ¿tus álbumes favoritos de nuestro año de nacimiento?

- Nacho Vegas: Aquí me pillas, porque todos los discos en los que se me ocurrió pensar son de uno o dos años antes o después: Heliotropo de Vainica Doble, Pink Moon de Nick Drake o High, Low and In Between de TVZ. De 1974 me quedo con New Skin For An Old Ceremony llegir més aquí de Cohen. ¿Crees que 1974 fue un buen año en cuestión de lanzamientos? No sé... Dylan hizo el Planet Waves, que no está mal pero palidece si lo comparas con e Blood on the Tracks del año siguiente. Bueno, Neil Young hizo el On The Beach llegir més aquí, que fue una especie de disco secreto durante un tiempo o algo así pero que tiene algunas canciones de mis favoritas. Y ABBA sacaron el single de Waterloo, eso es importante.

nota: per llegir l´entrevista completa a N.V. podeu enllaçar amb l´entrada: / para leer la entrevista completa podeis enlazar con la entrada: http://orphansofwaits.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/nacho-vegas-recorda-el-10e-aniversari.html

Pues muchas felicidades Nacho, con unos días de retraso, y esperemos que tu disco RESITUACIÓN (www) haya tenido un buen año de lanzamiento: 2014 (veremos si el blog y nosotros sobrevivimos 40 años más para recordarlo).
A continuación un video a modo de regalo de cumpleaños, de un viejo zorro que dos días antes del tuyo (07/12) celebró su 65 aniversario...

"I don´t wanna grow up" 

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up

(author: Tom Waits)

Sylvie Simmons: TVZ 70th anniversary / aniversari

english / català

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that" (Steve Earle)

"TVZ és el millor songwriter del món, i ho diria damunt sa taula de cafè d´en Bob Dylan amb ses meves botes cowboy posades"

"I've met Bob Dylan and his bodyguards, and I don't think Steve could get anywhere near his coffee table." (Townes Van Zandt)

"Jo he conegut a n´en Bob Dylan i als seus guardaespatlles, i no crec que n´Steve es pogués apropar mai a la seva taula de cafè"

 Welcome to Orphans of Waits , Sylvie!

I was honoured to meet Sylvie Simmons in the Autumm 2000 while working at The Borderline´s ticket-office (best said "freezing ticket-cage"). Ryan Adams had sold out for his first solo career UK show.

Sylvie came with her boyfriend Neil, but she did not have "plus one" on the list.

So I begged the bouncer to let both of them in (risking my shitjob I assumed). His name was Ishmael (amateur boxer as well) and he made a wisely sarcastic smile while he whispered: "you want to make big contacts for your shows in Mallorca, eh, little bastard, he-he".

So in came Neil and Sylvie to enjoy Ryan´s Heartbreaker...so glad that they did, because unfortunately Neil is no longer with us (rest in peace that extremely cool guy; as cool as Sylvie).

Vaig conéixer Sylvie Simmons la tardor de l´any 2000 quan treballava a la taquilla de The Borderline (sala de concerts del soho londinenc). Recordo que va venir a actuar Ryan Adams per presentar el seu nou projecte en solitari (disc Heartbreaker) després d´haver tancat l´etapa Whiskeytown. Es va crear un gran rebonbori mediàtic i fou un d´aquells vespres de sold-out cantat. Sylvie era a la llista de convidats, però no tenia "plus one" . Va venir amb la seva parella, i com el "segurata" no podia deixar passar ningú que no estés a la llista, ni li podíem vendre cap entrada, na Sylvie va donar mitja volta per anar-se´n. En un impuls de fan (era un autèntic goig llegir les seves ressenyes a la revista MOJO) li vaig demanar per favor a Ishmael (boxejador amateur a més de guarda de seguretat) que la parella de Simmons fos el meu "guest".

Recordo perfectament el seu somriure de "selfmade man" i com em va susurrar sarcàsticament "you want to make big contacts for your shows in Mallorca, eh little bastard?, he-he".

I cap endins entraren Sylvie i Neil per disfrutar dels temes del Heartbreaker de Ryan Adams.

Desgraciadament Neil ja no és entre nosaltres (en pau descansi), així que estic realment orgullós de que ella pogués disfrutar amb ell d´aquella especial vetlada de música en directe, enlloc d´haver-se anat a fer pintes pel Soho...

With her worlwide recognised subtle English sense of humour, the prestigious music journalist (MOJO magazine and the wonderful Too Weird For Ziggy stories) and author of indispensable biographies of Serge Gainsbourg (click www), Neil Young (click www) and Leonard Cohen (click www)...

... has made an effort to remember her introduction 10 years ago to the Darkness On The Edge Of Townes - tribute show to the one and only Townes Van Zandt, promoted by Waiting for Waits.

Amb el seu característic humor fi (100% anglés a pesar dels molts anys que du visquent a San Francisco), na Sylvie ha fet un esforç per recordar l´introducció que va fer del concert "Darkness On The Edge Of Townes" fa 10 anys al Centre de Cultura "Sa Nostra" de Palma...

Townes for Tomeu

[NOTA: si vols una traducció al català o al castellà d´aquest text de Sylvie Simmons, envia un correu a orphans.of.waits@gmail.com]

His life reads like a Tennessee Williams story or like one of those great American ballads - a man born in Texas to a wealthy, high-class oil-family, who sent him to military school and later, when it all went bad, to a mental hospital. When he finally checked out he took to the road with his guitar and a pen and never looked back; Townes, so his best friend Guy Clark said, was "a rambling kind of guy".    Along the way he met Lightnin' Hopkins, who inspired him to play, Mickey Newbury, who encouraged him to write, Jack Clement, who got him his first record deal, and Roky Erickson, whose house and girlfriend he shared. And everywhere he went - which, being a rambling kind of guy, was everywhere - he played riveting performances of his songs.

Maybe he rambled to Majorca too - I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past him; he was still flying to England to perform towards the end of his too-short life. Townes, his friends all say, was about as much concerned with looking after his physical as he was his  'music career'. His last-ever show was in December 1996 in London, at a basement Americana music club called the Borderline.

Which, by coincidence, was where I first met Tomeu, who told me about the show he was going to put on in Majorca of singer-songwriters - British and Spanish - paying tribute to Townes' songs.

Tomeu emailed me from Majorca recently to ask if I would write my memories of the event for him to use in his upcoming celebration of Townes' 70th birthday. But all I can remember are glimpses... a beautiful but chilly villa in the orange groves, where we all stayed, drinking into the early hours and fighting over who would get the extra blanket; hearing Nacho Vegas for the first time; watching an old man in the audience slowly drift off to sleep when I spoke and Tomeu translated; the dusty delicacy with which the great Neil Halstead sang Townes' songs....

So instead Tomeu asked me if I would write a little about Townes and what makes him special. 

Hey, Townes was so special I could probably write a book - but, having just recently completed a huge book on Leonard Cohen, for now I'll just contribute these few words. Townes Van Zandt wrote unique, unflinching songs that both tear your heart inside out and show you what it is to be alive. He captured the crazy beauty and the deep melancholy of being alive like no-one else.

Sylvie Simmons, March 2014 
http:sylviesimmons.com

 
Many thanks Sylvie!. And best of luck in Frisco with your almost to be launched ukelele debut album!.

ANÈCDOTA/ANECDOTE WFW:

Simmons va entrevistar Tom Waits l´any 2004 amb motiu del llençament del disc Real Gone. Off-the-record li va comentar l´existència del nostre festival d´espera. Quan vaig tornar veure na Sylvie per The Borderline me va entregar una postal signada per Tom Waits on deia "stay green"...

Sylvie interviewed TW in 2004 and told him off-the-record about our Waiting for Him festival. When she came back to The Borderline, she handed me a postcard signed by Tom. It said "stay green"...

 

Idò avui, amb motiu del 70 aniversari del dia del seu naixement, toca una miqueta de "brightness on the edge of Townes"...

So today, a little bit of "brightness on the edge of Townes" to celebrate TVZ 70th anniversary ...

video-audio: 

TVZ "Fare thee well, Miss Carousel"

The drunken clown's still hanging round

but it plain the laughter's all died down

the tears you tried so hard to hide

are flowin'

A blind man with his knife in hand

has convinced himself that he understands

I wish him well, Miss Carousel

but I gotta be a-goin'

CHORUS:

Won't you come and get me when

you're sure that you don't need me then

I'll stand outside your window

and proudly call your name

The lady's been told that all of gold

is worth so much it can't be sold

No time to weep she'll need her sleep

tomorrow

When she carries her face to the market place

and bets it on the opening race

she can ring her bells, Miss Carousel,

but her singing brings me sorrow

(Repeat Chorus)

It's always done every mother's son

is shown that grown men never run

and so they fight with all the might

inside them

When the battle's been fought and they all been taught

that the trick is just not being caught

Will you give them hell, Miss Carousel,

when they're begging you to hide them

(Repeat Chorus)

When the need arose your eyes fell closed

you clamped your fingers round your nose

Would you say that's any way

to judge him

You haven't got the authority

to kill him in the first degree

but would you feel compelled, Miss Carousel,

if you had something to begrudge him

(Repeat Chorus)

On a velvet beach far beneath the reach

of those that come to pray and preach

The natural man who tries to stand

is fallin'

How long will it be before he sees

you own his legs but his mind is free

Only you can tell, Miss Carousel,

how long will he be crawling?

(Repeat Chorus)

The castle wall has grown so tall

it seems there ain't no hope at all

to reach the top even though you stop

for breathin'

But I ain't gonna try to make you cry

the tear drops couldn't find your eyes

It's all been swell, Miss Carousel,

but the time has come for leavin'

(Repeat Chorus)

Per escoltar la versió que va fer Nacho Vegas d´aquesta superlativa cançó, podeu clicar AQUÍ

If you want to listen Nacho Vegas (the most respected Spanish songwriter of the last decade) cover "Que te vaya bien, miss carrusel" you can click HERE

r.i.p. The late & great TVZ

For The Sake of Mary

Avui fa deu anys que na Maria m´aguanta, me soporta i m´estima! (agraïment especial a Eva Mulet de la desapareguda Fundació "Sa Nostra", que ens va fer de Celestina...)

A continuació el primer vídeo-audio del dia dedicat a la mare del meu fill:

Richard Thompson - FOR THE SAKE OF MARY

For the sake of Mary I kicked the reds

Junked the juice, I drink coffee instead

Straightened my teeth, bent my back

Cut my friends dead from the old rat-pack

For Mary

She bought me this silk suit, watch and chain

She put the rhythm in my stride again

She showed me the way to make her feel good

If I could do more then I surely would

For Mary. Ah, for Mary.

For the sake of Mary I played my hand

She still don't trust me to be her man

I say the right thing but my timing's bad

She thinks I'm like the rest, but I'm the best she's ever had

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary

Oh I was cook first class on the Belfast B

But when she sailed she sailed without me

In Needle Pete's I got my last tatoo

In bleeding letters of red and blue

For Mary

Ah, for Mary

For the sake of Mary I changed my drift

I got a good job on the graveyard shift

She set her heart on a pretty little place

I want to see the tears of joy on her face, oh-oh

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary I keep the flame

I don't want to be a villain again

She had her bad times and it shook her about

I don't want to take the easy way out, no, no

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary

For the sake of Mary

Aquesta cançó fou inclosa fa dos anys al llençament #1 del segell pirata Orphans Of Waits, novament amb portada dissenyada amb ajuda de Frederic Melis:

A banda del tema de Richard Thompson, al disc hi havia una maravellosa cançó de l´aquests dies extensament recordat al bloc Townes Van Zandt, en dues versions diferents que vos deix a continuació.

NOTA: si vols participar en el sorteig d´una còpia del disc pirata For The Sake Of Mary deixa un comentari explicant quina de les dues versions t´agrada més... o bé explica per qué incomprensiblement t´agrada més en Leonard Coent que en TVZ.

versió #1 "Quicksilver Daydreams Of Maria" 
(disc For The Sake Of The Song, 1968)

versió #2 "(Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria" 
(disc Townes Van Zandt, 1970)

Well, the diamonds fades quickly when matched to the face of Maria
All the harps they sound empty when she lifts her lips to the sky
the brown of her skin makes her hair seem a soft golden rainfall
that spills from the mountains to the bottomless depths of her eyes

Well, she stands all around me her hands slowly sifting the sunshine
all the laughter that linger down deep 'neath her smilin' is free
Well, it spins and it twirls like a hummingbird lost in the morning
and caresses the south wind and silently sails to the sea

Ah, the sculptor stands stricken and the artist he throws away his brushes
when her image comes dancin' the sun she turns sullen with shame
And the birds they go silent the wind stops his sad mournful singing
when the trees of the forest start gently to whisper'in her name

So as softly she wanders I'll desperately follow her footsteps
and I'll chase after shadows that offer a trace of her sight
Ah, they promise eternally that she lays hidden within them
but I find they've deceived me and sadly I bid them goodbye

So the serpent slide softly away with these moments of laughter
and the the old washy woman has finish her cleanin' and gone
but the bamboo hang heavy in the bondage of quicksilver daydreams
and a lonely child longingly looks for a place to belong

La resta de temes inclosos al disc For The Sake Of Mary els podeu consultar a la següent contraportada: