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Waits signs with WME March 31, 2014

According to Billboard, Tom Waits has signed with William Morris Endeavor.

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Tom Waits ‘executive producer’ for Chuck E. Weiss album March 2, 2014

The new Chuck E. Weiss album, Red beans and Weiss, has Tom Waits and Johnny Depp as ‘executive producers’,  according to the credits on shopradiocast.com.

The record company listed is Anti, but Anti itself has no mention of Chuck E. Weiss or his new release.

Amazon has April 15th as the release date.

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John Hammond about a song Tom Waits wrote for him March 2, 2014

From NPR.org:

The album (John Hammond’s Timeless, ed.) leads off with “No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby,” a song (…) written especially for Hammond by Tom Waits.

“He came to a recording date I was doing in San Francisco in 1992,” Hammond says. “John Lee Hooker had sat in to do a duet with me, and Tom Waits appeared out of nowhere and said, ‘I have a song for you, man.’ It was about 20 minutes long, with everybody in the Bible coming down to the river. I said, ‘Gee, you know, it’s a great song, but I don’t think I could do anything like that.’ He said, ‘Oh, you don’t like that one?’ So he goes into the control room.”

Scarcely 10 minutes later, Hammond says, Waits emerged — with a brand-new song at the ready. Hammond listened, and liked what he heard.

“So I did it,” he says. “He had left by the time we completed it, and so I sent him a cassette of it. And I hadn’t heard from him for a while, so I called — and he had it on his answering machine. I guess he liked it.”

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The Eyeball Kid celebrates ten years of Tom Waits news! March 1, 2014

On the occasion of The Eyeball Kid’s 10th birthday, I would like to thank you all for your support. It means a lot to me and it has kept me going all that time.

Time flies when you’re having fun.

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