Innocent when you dream Tom Waits ; the collected interviews - Waits, Tom 1949- (Orion, 2007)
Originally published: New York: Thunder's Mouth, 2005; London: Orion, 2006
Discography: p. 385-388
pt. 1. The early years : an emotional weather report. The heart of Saturday night press release / Tom Waits -- The slime who came in from the cold / Clark Peterson -- Sweet and sour / Betsy Carter with Peter S. Greenberg -- Watch out for sixteen-year-old girls wearing bell bottoms who are running away from home and have a lot of blue oyster cult records under their arm / Peter O'Brien -- Blues / James Sevenson -- Smellin' like a brewery, lookin like a tramp / David McGee -- The Don Lane show / Channel Nine -- Not so much a poet, more a purveyor of improvisational travelogue / Todd Everett -- Tom Waits / Geoffrey Himes -- One for the shoeshine man / Charles Bukowski
pt. 2. The middle years : a jockey full of bourbon. Tom Waits makes good : rock's scavenger songwriter has become a legend in his own spare time / Robert Sabbag -- Tom Waits for no man / Glenn O'Brien -- Waits never lets guard down / Craig MacInnis -- Tom Waits is flying upside down (on purpose) / Mark Rowland -- Summit talk : eavesdropping on Elvis Costello and Tom Waits / Elvis Costello -- Tom Waits / Brian Brannon -- 20 questions / Steve Oney -- The fire (and flood) this time / Steve Pick -- A mellower prince of melancholy / Adam Sweeting -- Tom Waits meets Jim Jarmusch / Jim Jarmusch
pt. 3. These days : come on up to the house. Tom Waits join indie epitaph for Mule set / Bradley Bambarger -- The variations of Tom Waits, or, What do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and a one armed pianist have in common? / Robert Wilonsky -- Gone north : Tom Waits, upcountry / Robert Lloyd -- Romance in tall tails of drifters and drunks / Jon Pareles -- Sewers of Budapest / Luc Sante -- The resurrection of Tom Waits / David Fricke -- Holding on : a conversation with Tom Waits / Karen Schoemer -- Waits : Guthrie's Heir / Gene Santoro -- The poor soldier gets those proletarian lovesick blues / Robert Wilson and Peter Laugesen -- In the words of Waits / Steve Packer -- No Tom like the present / Rob Brunner -- The man who howled wolf / Jonathan Valania -- It's last call somewhere in the world / Johnathan Valania -- Play it like your hair's on fire / Elizabeth Gilbert -- Fresh air interview / Terry Gross -- The Onion interview / Keith Phipps -- Proust questionnaire / Vanity Fair -- Nirvana / Charles Bukowski -- Timeline and discography