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557 relations: A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Aaron Posner, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Accordion, Adios Amigos (Ramones album), Aimee Mann, Alan Lomax, Alban Berg, Album, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alice (Tom Waits album), Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Allen Ginsberg, AllMusic, Amazon (company), AMC+, American folk music, American Heart (film), American Recordings (album), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, American Songwriter, Americana music, Amsterdam, Angelo Rossitto, Ann Wilson, Anti- (record label), Anywhere I Lay My Head, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Arrangement, Associated Press, Asylum Records, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Audi, Avant-garde, Bad as Me, Bagpipes, Banjo, Barney Hoskyns, BBC, Beat Generation, Beatboxing, Beautiful Maladies, Beck, Beth Greene, Bette Midler, Big Time (1988 film), Big Time (Tom Waits album), Billboard (magazine), ... Expand index (507 more) »
- American bass-baritones
- Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Volpi Cup winners
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
A Very Very Very Dark Matter is a 2018 play by Martin McDonagh.
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Aaron Posner
Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theatre director.
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Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Adios Amigos (Ramones album)
¡Adios Amigos! (in Spanish, "Goodbye Friends") is the fourteenth and final studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones.
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Aimee Mann
Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter. Tom Waits and Aimee Mann are American rock songwriters.
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global peer-led mutual aid fellowship begun in the United States dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965.
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Alice (Tom Waits album)
Alice is the fourteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label).
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Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell,; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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AMC+
AMC+ is an American subscription video on demand streaming service owned by AMC Networks that was launched on June 11, 2020.
American folk music
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music, or roots music.
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American Heart (film)
American Heart is a 1992 drama film directed by Martin Bell and starring Jeff Bridges and Edward Furlong.
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American Recordings (album)
American Recordings is the 81st album by American country singer Johnny Cash.
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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services (music stores).
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American Songwriter
American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine covering songwriting.
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Americana music
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Angelo Rossitto
Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (February 18, 1908 – September 21, 1991) was an American actor and voice artist.
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Ann Wilson
Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart.
Anti- (record label)
Anti- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label to Epitaph Records.
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Anywhere I Lay My Head
Anywhere I Lay My Head is the debut studio album by American actress and singer Scarlett Johansson, released on May 16, 2008 by Atco Records.
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label, founded in 1971 by David Geffen and partner Elliot Roberts.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1991 epic adventure drama film directed by Héctor Babenco, adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen.
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Audi
Audi AG is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
Bad as Me
Bad as Me is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 2011, by Anti- Records.
Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.
Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns (born 5 May 1959) is a British music critic and editorial director of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.
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Beatboxing
Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.
Beautiful Maladies
Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years is a Tom Waits compilation album, consisting of previously released songs from his years recording with Island Records, most notably from the albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Big Time and Franks Wild Years.
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Beck
Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known mononymously as Beck, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Tom Waits and Beck are American multi-instrumentalists, American people of Norwegian descent, American rock songwriters and singer-songwriters from California.
Beth Greene
Beth Greene is a fictional character from the American horror drama television series The Walking Dead, created by season two showrunner Glen Mazzara, and was portrayed by Emily Kinney.
Bette Midler
Bette Midler (Inside the Actors Studio, 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, comedian, and author.
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Big Time (1988 film)
Big Time is a 1988 American musical film directed by Chris Blum.
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Big Time (Tom Waits album)
Big Time is the first conventional live album by American musician Tom Waits, featuring performances from two shows on Waits' 1987 tour.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman. Tom Waits and Bing Crosby are American bass-baritones.
Black Francis
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Tom Waits and Black Francis are American rock songwriters.
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Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations is the sixth studio album by American band Eels.
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Blood Money (Tom Waits album)
Blood Money is the fifteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on the ANTI- label.
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Blue Valentine (album)
Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 5, 1978, on Asylum Records.
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Blue Valentine (film)
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Bob Alcivar
Bob Alcivar (born July 8, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American music producer, composer, conductor and keyboard player.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Tom Waits and bob Dylan are American multi-instrumentalists, American rock songwriters, Asylum Records artists and singer-songwriters from California.
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bob Seger
Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is a retired American singer, songwriter, and musician. Tom Waits and Bob Seger are American rock songwriters.
Bohemianism
Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations.
Bone Machine
Bone Machine is the eleventh studio album by American singer and musician Tom Waits, released by Island Records on September 8, 1992.
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Bones Howe
Dayton Burr "Bones" Howe (born March 18, 1933) is an American record producer and recording engineer who scored a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, often of the sunshine pop genre, starting in 1965 with The Turtles cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe," and continuing with most of the hits of the 5th Dimension and the Association.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American vampire horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by James V. Hart, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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Briar Street Theatre
The Briar Street Theatre is a theatre located in Chicago, Illinois, and is home to the long-running Blue Man Group.
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Bridge School Benefit
The Bridge School Benefit was an annual charity concert usually held in Mountain View, California, every October at the Shoreline Amphitheatre from 1986 until 2016 with the exception of 1987.
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Bridge Theatre
The Bridge Theatre is a commercial theatre near Tower Bridge in London that opened in October 2017.
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Brit Awards
The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen are American multi-instrumentalists and American rock songwriters.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Bugle
The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
Cahuenga Boulevard
Cahuenga Boulevard is a major boulevard of northern Los Angeles, California, US.
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California State Route 42
State Route 42 (SR 42) is a decommissioned state highway in the southern region part of the U.S. state of California, running along Manchester Avenue, Manchester Boulevard and Firestone Boulevard in Los Angeles and the cities south of it.
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Calliope (music)
A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a North American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles.
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Candy Mountain
Candy Mountain is a 1987 drama film directed by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring Kevin J. O'Connor, Harris Yulin and Tom Waits.
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Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart are American multi-instrumentalists.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.
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Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, memoirist, and children's author.
Chamberlin
The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron.
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski,; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski are American agnostics.
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Charlie Rich
Charles Allan Rich (December 14, 1932July 25, 1995) was an American country singer.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chip White
Alan White (21 December 1946 – 5 August 2020), known as Chip White, was an American jazz drummer who has performed and/or recorded with a variety of artists, including Carmen McRae, Jaki Byard, the Jazzmobile CETA Big Band, Candido, John Abercrombie, Frank Wess, and many others.
Chris Blackwell
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels." According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history," while Barron's has described him as "a contender for most interesting man in the world." Having formed Island Records in Jamaica on May 22nd, 1959, coincidentally when he was nearly 22, Blackwell was among the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska.
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Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
"Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" is a song written and performed by Tom Waits, released on his 1978 album Blue Valentine.
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Chuck E. Weiss
Charles Edward Weiss (March 18, 1945 – July 20, 2021) was an American songwriter and vocalist. Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss are anti- (record label) artists.
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Chuck E.'s in Love
"Chuck E.'s in Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.
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Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista (Beautiful/Pretty View) is a city in San Diego County, California, United States.
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Closing Time (album)
Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on March 6, 1973, on Asylum Records.
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Club Passim
Club Passim is an American folk music club in the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Coen brothers
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature-length anthology film by independent film director Jim Jarmusch.
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Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California
Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California is a 1993 black-and-white short film directed by writer/director Jim Jarmusch shot in Northern California.
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Cold Feet (1989 film)
Cold Feet is a 1989 comedy film directed by Robert Dornhelm.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.
Colum McCann
Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.
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Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits
Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits is a tribute album of Tom Waits songs performed by established female singers.
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Contemporary folk music
Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Cotati, California
Cotati (Miwok: Kota’ti) is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.
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Crenshaw Boulevard
Crenshaw Boulevard is a north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, United States, that runs through Crenshaw and other neighborhoods along a 23-mile (37.76 km) route in the west-central part of the city.
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Crystal Gayle
Brenda Gail Webb, known professionally as Crystal Gayle (b. January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Dan Hicks (singer)
Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, and the leader of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. Tom Waits and Dan Hicks (singer) are singer-songwriters from California.
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Danny O'Keefe
Danny O'Keefe (born May 20, 1943) is an American folk singer and songwriter.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.
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David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor.
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David Hidalgo
David Kent Hidalgo (born October 6, 1954, in Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos.
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Day After Tomorrow (Joan Baez album)
Day After Tomorrow the twenty-fifth studio album (and twenty-seventh overall) by the American singer and musician Joan Baez, released in 2008.
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Dead Man Walking (film)
Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993 non-fiction book of the same name.
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Dead Man Walking (soundtrack)
Dead Man Walking is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1996 on Columbia Records.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian.
Delta blues
Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues.
Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
Der Freischütz
(J. 277, Op. 77 The Marksman or The Freeshooter) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch.
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Dion DiMucci
Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter.
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Dirty blues
Dirty blues (also known as bawdy blues) is a form of blues music that deals with socially taboo and obscene subjects, often referring to sexual acts and drug use.
Domino (2005 film)
Domino is a 2005 action crime film directed by Tony Scott with a screenplay by Richard Kelly from a story by Kelly and Steve Barancik.
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Doritos
Doritos is an American brand of flavored tortilla chips produced by Frito-Lay, a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo.
Down by Law (film)
Down by Law (Italian: Daunbailò) is a 1986 American black-and-white independent neo-beat noir comedy film.
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Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles.
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Downtown Train
"Downtown Train" is a song by Tom Waits released on his album Rain Dogs in 1985.
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Dr. John
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr.
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain is the fourth and final album by Sparklehorse before Mark Linkous' death in 2010.
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Eagles (band)
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. Tom Waits and Eagles (band) are Asylum Records artists.
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Echo Park
Echo Park is a neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California.
ECW Press
ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker.
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Eels (band)
Eels (often typeset as eels or EELS) is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett, known by the stage name E. Band members have changed over the years, both in the studio and on stage, making Everett the only official member for most of the band's work.
El Paso, Texas
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
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Elayne Boosler
Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian, writer, and actress.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter. Tom Waits and Elvis Costello are Island Records artists.
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Emily Kinney
Emily Rebecca Kinney (born August 15, 1984) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.
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Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 American documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who are credited as writers of the film alongside the director, Alex Gibney.
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Epitaph Records
Epitaph Records is an American independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz.
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Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Experimental rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.
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Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.
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Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
Farfisa
Farfisa (Fabbriche Riunite di Fisarmoniche) is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946.
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother
Father, Mother, Sister, Brother is an upcoming American comedy drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Feels like Home (Norah Jones album)
Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on February 10, 2004, through Blue Note Records.
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Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher, and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
Fishing with John
Fishing with John is a 1991 television series conceived, directed by and starring actor and musician John Lurie, which earned a cult following.
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Florence and the Machine
Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, drummer Christopher Lloyd Hayden & harpist Tom Monger, and a collaboration of other musicians. Tom Waits and Florence and the Machine are Island Records artists.
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Florence Welch
Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Tom Waits and Florence Welch are Island Records artists.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Ford Thunderbird (fourth generation)
The fourth generation Ford Thunderbird is a large personal luxury car produced by Ford for the 1964 to 1966 model years.
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Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits album)
Foreign Affairs is the fifth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 13, 1977, on Asylum Records.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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Frank Vicari
Frank Vicari (April 11, 1931 – October 20, 2006) was a jazz saxophonist.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. Tom Waits and Frank Zappa are American multi-instrumentalists, American rock songwriters and singer-songwriters from California.
Franks Wild Years
Franks Wild Years is the tenth studio album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records.
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Freak show
A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature".
Freischütz
In German folklore, the figure of the italics is a marksman who, by a contract with the devil, has obtained a certain number of bullets destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes.
Friends of Mine (Ramblin' Jack Elliott album)
Friends of Mine is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1998.
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Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay, Inc. is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.
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Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.
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Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).
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Glitter and Doom Live
Glitter and Doom Live is a live album by Tom Waits, by the ANTI- label on November 23, 2009.
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Glitter and Doom Tour
The Glitter and Doom Tour was a concert tour by American rock musician Tom Waits from June to August 2008.
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Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.
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GQ
GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.
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Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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Gridley, California
Gridley is a city in Butte County, California, United States, south of Chico, California, and north of Sacramento, California.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Hades
Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.
Hal Willner
Hal Willner (April 6, 1956 – April 7, 2020) was an American music producer working in recording, films, television, and live events.
Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. Tom Waits and Harry Partch are American multi-instrumentalists.
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Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director.
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Héctor Babenco
Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States.
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Heart (band)
Heart is an American/Canadian rock band formed in 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Heartattack and Vine
Heartattack and Vine is the seventh studio album by Tom Waits, released on September 9, 1980, and his final album to be released on the Asylum label.
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Heigh-Ho
"Heigh-Ho" is a song from Walt Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, written by Frank Churchill (music) and Larry Morey (lyrics).
Herb Cohen
Herbert Cohen (December 30, 1932 – March 16, 2010) was an American personal manager, record company executive, and music publisher, best known as the manager of Judy Henske, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley, Odetta, Tom Waits, George Duke, the Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, and many other Los Angeles-based musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.
Herbert Hardesty
Herbert Hardesty (March 3, 1925 – December 3, 2016) was an American musician who played tenor saxophone and trumpet.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
Hilltop High School (Chula Vista, California)
Hilltop High School (formerly Hilltop Senior High) is a four-year public high school located in Chula Vista, California and is part of the Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD).
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.
HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer.
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Holly Cole
Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer and actress.
Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Homer Goes to Prep School
"Homer Goes to Prep School" is the ninth episode of the twenty-fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 517th episode overall in the series.
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Hotel Chelsea
The Hotel Chelsea (also known as the Chelsea Hotel and the Chelsea) is a hotel at 222 West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist.
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Hubert Selby Jr.
Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer.
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Hughes brothers
Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes (born April 1, 1972), known together professionally as the Hughes brothers, are American film directors and producers.
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I Ain't a Judas
"I Ain't a Judas" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC in the United States on February 24, 2013.
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Ian Rankin
Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster. Tom Waits and Iggy Pop are American people of Norwegian descent.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
In the Neighborhood
"In the Neighborhood" is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
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Infected (The Walking Dead)
"Infected" is the second episode of the fourth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on October 20, 2013.
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Innocent When You Dream (song)
Innocent When You Dream is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his tenth studio album Franks Wild Years.
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Iraq War
The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.
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Ironweed (film)
Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter. Tom Waits and Irving Berlin are American agnostics.
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Island Records
Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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It Always Will Be
It Always Will Be is the 52nd studio album by country singer Willie Nelson.
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Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
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Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road is a compilation album by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, released posthumously on September 14, 1999.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.
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Jack Tempchin
Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter who wrote the Eagles song "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and co-wrote "Already Gone", "The Girl from Yesterday", "Somebody" and "It's Your World Now". Tom Waits and Jack Tempchin are American rock songwriters.
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Jake LaMotta
Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta (July 10, 1922 – September 19, 2017) was an Italian-American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician. Tom Waits and James Brown are American multi-instrumentalists.
James Hetfield
James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician. Tom Waits and James Hetfield are American rock songwriters.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz club
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or promotion of jazz-music.
Jazz funeral
A jazz funeral is a funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, in the tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer and music video director.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003.
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States.
Jerry Yester
Jerome Alan Yester (born January 9, 1943) is an American former folk rock musician, record producer, and arranger. Tom Waits and Jerry Yester are American multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters from California.
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Jersey Girl (song)
"Jersey Girl" is a song composed and originally sung by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits from his 1980 album Heartattack and Vine.
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Jesse Dylan
Jesse Byron Dylan (born January 6, 1966) is an American film director and production executive.
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza.
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Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Tom Waits and Joan Baez are singer-songwriters from California.
Joe Coleman (painter)
Joseph Coleman (born November 22, 1955) is an American painter, illustrator, actor and performance artist.
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Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known professionally as Joe Strummer, was a British musician. Tom Waits and Joe Strummer are Epitaph Records artists.
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John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories.
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John Lurie
John Lurie (born December 14, 1952) is an American musician, painter, actor, director, and producer.
John P. Hammond
John Paul Hammond (born November 13, 1942) is an American singer and musician.
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John Prine
John Edward Prine (October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music.
John Rechy
John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist.
Johnny Cash
John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Tom Waits and Johnny Cash are American bass-baritones.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor and television host.
K.d. lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Kathleen Brennan
Kathleen Patricia Brennan (born 1955) is an Irish-American musician, songwriter, record producer, and artist.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.
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Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.
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Ken Nordine
Ken Nordine (April 13, 1920 – February 16, 2019) was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of word jazz albums.
King Crimson
King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London. Tom Waits and King Crimson are Island Records artists.
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Kinka Usher
Kinka Usher is a director of television commercials.
KQED Inc.
KQED Inc. is a non-profit public media outlet based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, which operates the radio station KQED-FM and the television stations KQED/KQET and KQEH.
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American retired country singer, songwriter and actor. Tom Waits and Kris Kristofferson are American people of Scotch-Irish descent.
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Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
Larry Taylor
Samuel Lawrence "Larry" Taylor (June 26, 1942 – August 19, 2019) was an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat.
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Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the ''Late Show'' franchise.
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Léolo
Léolo is a 1992 French Canadian coming-of-age fantasy comedy-drama film by director Jean-Claude Lauzon.
Lee Kolima
Lee Kolima (born Charles Howard Zalopany, February 20, 1920 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, died November 23, 1995), was a professional wrestler and a film actor.
Legacy.com
Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.
Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist.
Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian; August 26, 1949 – May 30, 2019) was a singer-songwriter and musician specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics.
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.
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LGBT rights by country or territory
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality.
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza is a 2021 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas.
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Linda Ronstadt
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music. Tom Waits and Linda Ronstadt are American multi-instrumentalists, Asylum Records artists and singer-songwriters from California.
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Little Red Rooster
"Little Red Rooster" (or "The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon.
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Live 1975–85
Live/1975–85 is a live album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, consisting of 40 tracks recorded at various concerts between 1975 and 1985, and released as a box set by Columbia Records on November 10, 1986.
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Locke, California
Locke, also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta of California, United States.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lord Buckley
Lord Richard Buckley (born Richard Myrle Buckley; April 5, 1906 – November 12, 1960) was an American stand-up comedian and recording artist, who in the 1940s and 1950s created a character that was, according to The New York Times, "an unlikely persona...
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Los Lobos
Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") is a Mexican-American rock band from East Los Angeles, California.
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
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LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. Tom Waits and Marc Ribot are anti- (record label) artists.
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English rock singer. Tom Waits and Marianne Faithfull are anti- (record label) artists and Island Records artists.
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Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. Tom Waits and Mark Twain are American people of Scotch-Irish descent.
Martha and the Vandellas
Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas) were an American vocal girl group formed in Detroit in 1957.
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Martin McDonagh
Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker.
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Marysville, California
Marysville is a city and the county seat of Yuba County, California, located in the Gold Country region of Northern California.
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Master of ceremonies
A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.
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Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South in New York City, which became a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists, and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows.
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963.
Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Tom Waits and Merle Haggard are anti- (record label) artists and singer-songwriters from California.
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Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band.
Michael A. Russ
Michael Andreas Russ (January 1945 – September 27, 2021) was an American photographer, photo designer and film director.
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Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe was born in Metro Atlanta in January 1960. Tom Waits and Michael Stipe are American rock songwriters.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer.
Mississippi Lad
Mississippi Lad is an album by saxophonist Teddy Edwards featuring Tom Waits on two tracks which was recorded in 1991 and originally released on the French Verve/Gitanes label in Europe and on Antilles Records in the US.
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Mojo (magazine)
Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.
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Moral rights
Moral rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions.
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Motown
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.
MP3.com
MP3.com was a website operated by Paramount Global publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies.
Mule Variations
Mule Variations is the thirteenth studio album by American musician Tom Waits, released on April 16, 1999, on the ANTI- label.
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Music video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.
Music World Corporation
Music World Corporation is an American music production and music publishing company, representing hundreds of song and music cue titles for a small clientele of composers and lyricists including the company founder.
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Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument.
Mystery Men
Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by Kinka Usher (in his feature-length directorial debut), written by Neil Cuthbert, loosely based on Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, starring Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Claire Forlani, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Janeane Garofalo, Wes Studi, Geoffrey Rush, Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, and Tom Waits.
Mystery Train (film)
Mystery Train is a 1989 comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Nanci Griffith
Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Nancy Wilson (rock musician)
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician.
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National City, California
National City is a city located in the South Bay region of the San Diego metropolitan area, in southwestern San Diego County, California.
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter. Tom Waits and Neil Young are musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area and singer-songwriters from California.
Neko Case
Neko Richelle Case (born September 8, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rock group the New Pornographers. Tom Waits and Neko Case are anti- (record label) artists.
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
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Nessun dorma
"" (English: "Let no one sleep") is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot (text by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni) and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera.
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New Coat of Paint
New Coat of Paint is the title of a tribute album to Tom Waits, released in 2000 by Manifesto Records.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Night on Earth
Night on Earth is a 1991 American comedy-drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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Night on Earth (soundtrack)
Night on Earth is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1992 on Island Records.
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Nighthawks (Hopper)
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window.
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Nighthawks at the Diner
Nighthawks at the Diner is the third studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 1975 on Asylum Records.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Norman Granz
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.
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O'Farrell Community School
The O'Farrell Charter Schools is a system of public charter schools on a campus in San Diego, California, United States.
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Oh Shenandoah
"Oh Shenandoah" (also called "Shenandoah", "Across the Wide Missouri", "Rolling River", "Oh, My Rolling River", "World of Misery") is a traditional folk song, sung in the Americas, of uncertain origin, dating to the early 19th century.
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Ol' '55
"Ol' '55" is a song by American musician Tom Waits.
Omnibus Press
Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.
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On the Border
On the Border is the third studio album by American rock band the Eagles, released on March 22, 1974.
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One from the Heart
One from the Heart is a 1982 American musical romantic drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Lainie Kazan, and Harry Dean Stanton.
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One from the Heart (album)
One from the Heart is a soundtrack album of Tom Waits compositions for the Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Opel
Opel Automobile GmbH, usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since 16 January 2021.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Optigan
The Optigan (a portmanteau of optical organ) is an electronic keyboard instrument designed for the consumer market.
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is a limited edition three CD set by Tom Waits, released by the ANTI- label on November 17, 2006 in Europe and on November 21, 2006 in the United States.
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Our Town
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938.
Paradise Alley
Paradise Alley is a 1978 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone (in his feature directorial debut).
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Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas)
The Paramount Theatre is a live theatre venue/movie theatre located in downtown Austin, Texas.
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Parlour music
Parlour music (or parlor music) is a type of popular music which, as the name suggests, is intended to be performed in the parlours of houses, usually by amateur singers and pianists.
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Paste (magazine)
Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.
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Patty Smyth
Patricia Smyth (born June 26, 1957) is an American singer and songwriter.
Paul Hampton
Paul Hampton (born August 20, 1937) is an American actor, singer, lyricist and writer.
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Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band
Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band is an American musical ensemble led by Paul Shaffer.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.
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Paul Young
Paul Antony Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre
The Pellissier Building and adjoining Wiltern Theatre is a 12-story, Art Deco landmark at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
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Phantom 309
"Phantom 309" is a song written by Tommy Faile and released as a single by Red Sovine in 1967.
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (born August 17, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter. Tom Waits and Phoebe Bridgers are singer-songwriters from California.
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Pirates (Rickie Lee Jones album)
Pirates is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released on July 15, 1981, by Warner Bros. Records.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Pixies (band)
The Pixies are an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed in 1986 by Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals) and David Lovering (drums).
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PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter. Tom Waits and PJ Harvey are Island Records artists.
Pomona, California
Pomona is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Primus (band)
Primus is an American rock band formed in El Sobrante, California in 1984.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Tom Waits and Prince (musician) are American multi-instrumentalists and American rock songwriters.
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Pub crawl
A pub crawl (sometimes called a bar tour, bar crawl or bar-hopping) is the act of visiting multiple pubs or bars in a single session.
Pump organ
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass). Tom Waits and Queen (band) are Island Records artists.
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Queens Logic
Queens Logic is a 1991 American ensemble coming-of-age comedy-drama film from Seven Arts Pictures starring Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, Joe Mantegna, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Malkovich, Ken Olin, Chloe Webb and Tom Waits.
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R.E.M.
R.E.M. were an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.
Rain Dogs
Rain Dogs is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and songwriter and musician. Tom Waits and Ramblin' Jack Elliott are anti- (record label) artists.
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974.
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, composer and conductor known for his non-rhotic Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. Tom Waits and Randy Newman are singer-songwriters from California.
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Raul Julia
Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Tom Waits and Ray Charles are American rock songwriters and singer-songwriters from California.
RCA Studio A
RCA Studio A is a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee built and founded in 1964 by Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Harold Bradley.
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Real Gone (album)
Real Gone is the sixteenth studio album by Tom Waits, released October 4, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in United States on the ANTI- label.
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Record Plant
The Record Plant is a recording studio established in New York City in 1968 and last operating in Los Angeles, California.
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Red Hot + Blue
Red Hot + Blue is the first compilation album from the Red Hot Organization in the Red Hot Benefit Series.
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Red Sovine
Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine (July 7, 1917 – April 4, 1980) was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with truck-driving country songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music.
Renfield
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones are American rock songwriters.
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish actor.
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Robert Dornhelm
Robert Dornhelm (born 17 December 1947 in Timișoara, Romania) is an Austrian film and television director.
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Robert Wilson (director)
Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist.
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Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
"The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" is a feature published by the American magazine Rolling Stone in August 2015.
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Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1993 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Medak, written and produced by Hilary Henkin, and starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, and Roy Scheider.
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Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.
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Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson. Tom Waits and Roxy Music are Island Records artists.
Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Tom Waits and Roy Orbison are American rock songwriters and Asylum Records artists.
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night is a 1988 Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988, presenting a performance by singer/songwriter Roy Orbison and the TCB Band with special guests including Bruce Springsteen, k.d. lang and others.
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Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress.
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.
Sefronia
Sefronia is the eighth album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in September 1973.
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Serial killer
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.
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Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 satirical crime comedy-drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh and starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken, with Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, and Željko Ivanek in supporting roles.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Short Cuts
Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Tom Waits and Short Cuts are Volpi Cup winners.
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 is a 2004 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig.
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott.
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Small Change (Tom Waits album)
Small Change is the fourth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 21, 1976 on Asylum Records.
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Smoke (film)
Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster.
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Somewhere (song)
"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into films in 1961 and 2021.
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Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties and the follow-up to Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys.
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Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.
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Sonoma, California
Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Soundstage (TV series)
Soundstage is an American live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and HD Ready.
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South by Southwest
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.
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Southeast San Diego
Southeast San Diego refers to the southeastern portion of San Diego, including the neighborhoods south of State Route 94 (Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway) and east of downtown San Diego (but excluding South San Diego).
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Southwestern College (California)
Southwestern College is a public community college in Chula Vista, California founded in 1961.
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Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band from Richmond, Virginia, led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.
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Sparks (band)
Sparks is an American pop and rock duo formed by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals) in Los Angeles. Tom Waits and Sparks (band) are Island Records artists.
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Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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Spoken word
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities.
Stalking
Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films is a 1988 tribute album recorded by various artists performing songs from Disney films.
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Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theater company founded in 1974 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Immaculate Conception grade school in Highland Park, Illinois and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.
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Stereogum
Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.
Steve Earle
Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an American country, rock and folk singer-songwriter.
Steve Rash
Steve Rash is an American film director and producer best known for directing such films as Son in Law, The Buddy Holly Story, Can't Buy Me Love, Queens Logic, Bring It On: All or Nothing and Bring It On: In It to Win It.
Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer.
Strange Little Girls
Strange Little Girls is a concept album released by singer-songwriter Tori Amos in 2001.
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Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album)
Strange Weather is a 1987 studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull, recorded after recovering from a 17-year addiction to heroin in 1986.
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Streetwise (1984 film)
Streetwise is a 1984 documentary film by director Martin Bell chronicling the lives of homeless youth on the streets of Seattle.
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Stroh violin
The Stroh violin or Stroviol is a type of stringed musical instrument that is mechanically amplified by a metal resonator and horn attached to its body.
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Sunset Sound Recorders
Sunset Sound Recorders is a recording studio in Hollywood, California, United States, located at 6650 Sunset Boulevard.
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Swordfishtrombones
Swordfishtrombones is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1983 on Island Records.
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Talk Is Cheap
Talk Is Cheap is the debut solo album by English musician Keith Richards, the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, released in 1988.
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Talking drum
The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech.
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Teddy Edwards
Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards (April 26, 1924 – April 20, 2003) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Teller (magician)
Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician.
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Temptation (Holly Cole album)
Temptation is a tribute album to Tom Waits, by Holly Cole.
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Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American–born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator and actor.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany.
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The Absence of Eden
The Absence of Eden is a 2023 thriller film directed and co-written by Marco Perego.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 American Western anthology film written, directed, produced, and edited by the Coen brothers.
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The Beverly Hilton
The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
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The Black Rider
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits and writer William S. Burroughs.
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The Black Rider (album)
The Black Rider is the twelfth studio album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs.
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Blind Boys of Alabama, also billed as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, is an American gospel group.
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The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic neo-Western action film directed by the Hughes Brothers, written by Gary Whitta, and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, and Jennifer Beals.
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The Cellar Door
The Cellar Door was a 163-seat music club located at 34th & M Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. from 1964 through January 7, 1982.
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The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band that formed in London in 1976 and were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.
The Cotton Club (film)
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name.
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The Daily Show
The Daily Show (TDS is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program.
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The Dead Don't Die (2019 film)
The Dead Don't Die is a 2019 American absurdist zombie comedy film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood.
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The Early Years (album series)
The Early Years is a two-part retrospective album series of Tom Waits songs, consisting of recordings made before Waits' debut album, Closing Time.
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The End of Violence
The End of Violence is a 1997 American drama film by the German director Wim Wenders.
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The Fisher King
The Fisher King is a 1991 American fantasy comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Heart of Saturday Night
The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974, on Asylum Records.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown.
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The Last Castle
The Last Castle is a 2001 American action drama film directed by Rod Lurie, starring Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo and Delroy Lindo.
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The Lounge Lizards
The Lounge Lizards were an eclectic musical group founded by saxophonist John Lurie and his brother, pianist Evan Lurie, in 1978.
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The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention (also known as the Mothers) were an American rock band from California.
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The Neville Brothers
The Neville Brothers were an American R&B/soul/funk group, formed in 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Old Man & the Gun
The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical crime film written and directed by David Lowery, about Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist.
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The Outsiders (film)
The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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The Pogues
The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish phrase ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse". Tom Waits and the Pogues are Island Records artists.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The Ride (Los Lobos album)
The Ride is a studio album by Los Lobos. It was released on May 4, 2004, by Hollywood / Mammoth Records. It features numerous guest musicians, including Bobby Womack, Tom Waits, Rubén Blades, Dave Alvin, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Mavis Staples, and Garth Hudson. The album contains new material and also new versions of earlier Los Lobos songs.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Secret of Association
The Secret of Association is the second studio album by the English singer Paul Young.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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The Sound Factory
The Sound Factory (also known as Sunset Sound Factory) is a recording studio in Los Angeles, California.
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The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger is the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey.
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The Stone Boy (film)
The Stone Boy is a 1984 American drama film directed by Christopher Cain and starring Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley, Linda Hamilton, Dean Cain and Jason Presson.
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The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.
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The Tiger and the Snow
The Tiger and the Snow (Italian: La tigre e la neve) is a 2005 Italian comedy-drama film starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964.
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The Two Jakes
The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir mystery film and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.
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The Walking Dead (TV series)
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Wire
The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by American author and former police reporter David Simon.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead.
Thomas Babe
Thomas Babe (March 13, 1941 – December 6, 2000) was an American playwright, "one of Joseph Papp's most prolific resident playwrights at the New York Shakespeare Festival," with seven of his plays premiered at the Public Theatre.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.
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Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871, although it is indicated that the novel was published in 1872 by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Tijuana
Tijuana is the largest city in the state of Baja California, located on the northwestern Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Tim Buckley
Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician. Tom Waits and Tim Buckley are American rock songwriters and singer-songwriters from California.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time (Tom Waits song)
"Time" is a song by Tom Waits appearing on his eighth studio album Rain Dogs.
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Tom Rush
Thomas Walker Rush (born February 8, 1941) is an American folk and blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter who helped launch the careers of other singer-songwriters in the 1960s and has continued his own singing career for 60 years.
Tom Traubert's Blues
"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" (commonly known as "Tom Traubert's Blues" or "Waltzing Matilda") is a song by American musician Tom Waits.
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Tom Waits discography
The discography of the American rock musician Tom Waits spans five decades.
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Tom Waits for No One
Tom Waits for No One is a rotoscoped short film starring Tom Waits, singing "The One That Got Away" to an apparition.
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Tommy the Cat
"Tommy the Cat" is a song by the American funk metal band Primus, released on their second album, Sailing the Seas of Cheese.
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Tony Scott
Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer.
Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Tom Waits and Tori Amos are American rock songwriters and Island Records artists.
Tralee
Tralee (formerly Tráigh Lí, meaning 'strand of the River Lee') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland.
Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)
The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, United States, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Doheny Drive and the border of Beverly Hills.
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Twixt (film)
Twixt is a 2011 American horror film written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Ukulele
The ukulele (from ukulele, approximately), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii.
Union Square, Manhattan
Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services.
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Unreliable narrator
In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised.
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Valley Ford, California
Valley Ford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Sonoma County, California, United States.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
Venice, Los Angeles
Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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VH1 Storytellers
Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.
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Vogue (magazine)
Vogue U.S., also known as American Vogue, or simply Vogue, (stylized in all caps) is a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.
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Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.
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Way Down in the Hole
"Way Down in the Hole" is a song written by the singer-songwriter Tom Waits.
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Wayne Newton
Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942), mostly known as Mr.
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We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones
We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones is a 2003 tribute album to the Ramones by various artists.
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West Side Story
West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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What Keeps Mankind Alive?
"What Keeps Mankind Alive?" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama The Threepenny Opera which premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
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Whistle Down the Wind (album)
Whistle Down the Wind is the 26th (and 28th overall) studio album by American folk singer and musician Joan Baez, released on March 2, 2018, her first studio album in almost a decade.
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Whittier, California
Whittier is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities.
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Wicked Grin
Wicked Grin is the twenty-eighth studio album from blues singer John P. Hammond.
Wildwood (film)
Wildwood is an upcoming American animated dark fantasy adventure film directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler, based on the novel of the same name by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.
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Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator.
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Willie Dixon
William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.
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Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter.
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Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American singer and songwriter.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wolfen (film)
Wolfen is a 1981 American crime horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh in his only directional feature film, based on Whitley Strieber's 1978 novel The Wolfen.
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Woyzeck
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner.
Woyzeck (musical)
Woyzeck is a 2000 musical with music and lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, and book by Robert Wilson, based on the unfinished play Woyzeck by German playwright Georg Büchner.
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Wozzeck
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Wristcutters: A Love Story is a 2006 dark comedy film written and directed by Goran Dukić.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
1992 Los Angeles riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992.
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See also
American bass-baritones
- Arnold Voketaitis
- Bill Medley
- Bill Pinkney
- Billy Eckstine
- Billy Gibbons
- Bing Crosby
- David Coffin
- Edward Platt
- George Beverly Shea
- George Dewey Washington
- Howard Keel
- Ike Turner
- James Pease
- Jason Downs
- Johnny Cash
- Josh Turner
- Norman Treigle
- Paul Matthen
- Paul Robeson
- Reinhold von Warlich
- Scotty McCreery
- Simon Estes
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Tom Waits
- Trace Adkins
- William Warfield
- Willis Patterson
Male actors from the San Francisco Bay Area
- Alan Sues
- Barry Bostwick
- Barry Nelson
- Bob Sherman (actor)
- Brian Copeland
- Bud Jamison
- Buster Crabbe
- Charles Wood (actor)
- Charley Koontz
- Clint Eastwood
- Daniel Caldwell
- Dean Butler (actor)
- Dennis Haysbert
- Dwayne Johnson
- E-40
- Frank DiPalermo
- Frank Fay (comedian)
- Freddie Burke Frederick
- Greg Sestero
- James Carpenter (actor)
- Josh Kornbluth
- Josh Zuckerman
- Keith Carradine
- Kevin Cheng
- Kyle Gass
- Lloyd Bridges
- Marc McClure
- Master P
- Michael Pritchard (comedian)
- Michael Trucco
- Only Won
- Rafael Casal
- Raymond Burr
- Rider Strong
- Robin Williams
- Rolf Saxon
- Russell Means
- Sam Rockwell
- Sammee Tong
- Shiloh Strong
- Todd Bridges
- Tom Waits
- Tupac Shakur
- Wade Dominguez
- Wesley Mann
- Will Forte
- Đơn Dương (actor)
Volpi Cup winners
- Andie MacDowell
- Anne Archer
- Annie Ross
- Bruce Davison
- Buck Henry
- Chris Penn
- Frances McDormand
- Fred Ward
- Jack Lemmon
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Lili Taylor
- Lily Tomlin
- Lori Singer
- Lyle Lovett
- Madeleine Stowe
- Matthew Modine
- Peter Gallagher
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Short Cuts
- Tim Robbins
- Tom Waits
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