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"I heard him doing his voice exercises once, which was kind of hilarious."
A great piece on the 40th anniversary of Tom Waits' and Kathleen Brennan's so-called "Frank Trilogy."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years
The Guardian · ‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy
@krishooper “I think what a lot of people trying to sound like Tom Waits didn’t get,” Blair says, “is that for that ‘junkyard’ sound to work, you’ve got to first have a song that will stand up to having an axe taken to it.”
So true.