Video Gold:--> Tom Waits
"...took out her barrettes... and her hair spilled out like root beer." - Tom Waits - The first time I heard Tom Waits ...was while driving my TV remote...blind through all the upteen channels on my digital box...one long bored afternoon. Austin CL was replaying a performance by Tom because of an extreme outpouring from hungry viewers. He was standing by some gas pumps...smoking a cigarette...looking like some hip-cat from the fifties. He recited a story about a young girls wanderlust for the unknown. Lost gem:--> "Burma Shave" . ..is paintbrush poetry. Like knife-packin' fireflies at a summer evening glow-off! Beautiful...Mesmerizing...Unforgettable. Tom Waits performing "Burma Shave" on ACL 1978. Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through he was a juvenile delin