Tom Waits (who's an even bigger musical hero of mine)
is
> similar in that respect. Tom also has strong
associations with noir in
> his music, going back even earlier in his career -
even rare-birds who
> don't like rock music should listen to his early
classic track (which
> isn't rock at all, anyway; Tom rasps out a sort of
hardboiled beatnik
> poem over a cool noiry jazz sax) - "Small Change" a
track that reminds
> me of an old Damon Runyan short, title forgotten,
that I read long ago
> about a dying gangster
The first line of that song goes "Small Change got rained on
with his own
.38" Sounds pretty noir to me.
Brad
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