Wednesday, June 21, 2006

H.C. Schmidt sings Tom Waits

German singer Hans-Christian Schmidt tours with a Tom Waits repertoire. Georg Wieland accompanies him on piano.

His site has sound clips of Georgia Lee, Kentucky Avenue, Take me home and Tom Traubert´s blues in the 'audio' section.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

notice how exaggerated the drunken slurs are when he sings.

Anonymous said...

dreadful...dont like it !

Pascal

Anonymous said...

Why would one do such a thing - why join such a "soundalike contest"? If someone captures the mood he would certainly do it in his/her own original way. Like they did it with Cohen's songs on the album "I'm your fan", which I really like. Now with Cohen it's easy to arrange the songs in a new way. Waits arranges his songs so rich, that one needs some distance and genius to alternate them.