Tom Waits "Green" Tribute

Here is a beautiful song performed by the great Tom Waits.
Thomas Alan Waits (born in 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice (a gravelly sound reminiscent of Howlin' Wolf, a booming, feral bark, or a strained, nearly shrieking falsetto), described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville (he embraces a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music), and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. Waits has also worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including "The Fisher King", Bram Stoker's "Dracula", and "Short Cuts". He has been nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work.
Lyrically, Waits' songs are known for atmospheric portrayals of bizarre, seedy characters and places, although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters, despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists — for example "Jersey Girl" performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Downtown Train" performed by Rod Stewart, and "Ol' '55" performed by the Eagles. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards, and has won Grammy Awards for two albums.
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[1JustBreathe]

ah beautiful

[goouttothemeadow]

WoW I'm amazed reading these comments because it seems I am not the only person in the whole world who feels this way about Mr Waits.

[doUcare4music]

tom W. is an important singer/ writer in my life... i need 2 hear him sometimes..

[5150zombie]

damn, I'm gonna start hitting the dislike button on great vids, like the kid who throws a bottle at a iggy pop show. I kinda understand it.

[sclogse1]

Tom is now working on a fourth project with Robert Wilson, and the director of In Bruges. WIll debut in Paris in 2011, I believe.

Orphans is now on LP, in a seven record box set. (180 gram)

[danskTRIGGER]

thanx....

[phoqnchyt]

Tom Waits is up there along Lou Reed, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. True poets of our time who will live for all eternity.

[saxus50]

Что-то как-то грустно... Ответы-вопросы...не надо искать смысл...он сам тебя найдёт....резина....

[tpesc]

You've seen the light.

[koldorika]

question begs the answer...Tom, man, How you do it, again and again...just the best.

[Zellig]

I think this is the only song that ever made me cry.

[KATE80028090]

wonderful video! Tom Waits does it get better?