By: Greg Mitchell Love him or ignore him, you have to admit: Tom Waits is a true original, and his latest CD ended up on a lot of year-end Best Of lists.
He's got a bit more respectable over the years, but in the 1970s there was nothing fake about his boozy, Bukowski personna, I'm here to testify. In a former life, I was his editor at a certain legendary magazine and went out drinking with him more than once in Manhattan. All I'll say is: Waits had, shall we say, a certain hard-earned authenticity.
But I better sign off here because, as Waits might put it, "the keyboard has been drinking."
If you missed his tremendous performance on The Daily Show back in November, here is a reprise.
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Previous: A very animated Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
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Earlier
3 videos touting Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in 2008:
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New Orleans musical legend Prof. Longhair's "Tipitina"
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Amazing clip from ABC News in 1969 covering Vietnam debate and antiwar protests:
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Alec Baldwin and Tony Bennett do "Phony Bennett" on SNL:
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The meeting of two giants, sax fiend Sonny Rollins and poet/singer Leonard Cohen.
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