Tom Waits to Co-Host BBC Radio Special with Iggy Pop
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Tom Waits is set to reunite with Iggy Pop next month when they co-host a two-hour special on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Airing on Sunday, December 3rd, the show will see the two musicians trading personal anecdotes and playing some of their favorite tracks to each other.
A press release teased some of those stories, including the time when Waits hitched a ride to Los Angeles with songwriter eden ahbez, who composed Nat King Cole’s 1948 hit “Nature Boy.”
Meanwhile, Iggy Pop will recall how he once stumbled across Captain Beefheart eating breakfast in LA, but was “wise enough not to disturb him.”
Some of the songs that will be played during the special include Alex Chiltern’s “Bangkok,” Pauline Oliveros’ “Bye Bye Butterfly,” Frank Ocean’s “Moon River,” and Johnny Paycheck’s “Colorado Kool-Aid,” along with the first spoken word song that Waits heard on the radio and a couple of ’60s TV theme songs “to raise a smile.”
Waits and Iggy Pop previously co-starred in the memorable 1993 short Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, which was later included in Jim Jarmusch’s 2003 feature film Coffee and Cigarettes. Check it out below.
The special will mark a rare public appearance from Waits, whose last studio album, Bad As Me, came out in 2011. However, he has acted in several films since then, including The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Old Man & the Gun, and Licorice Pizza. He’s also appeared in TV shows like Ultra City Smiths and The Simpsons.
Earlier this year, Waits celebrated the 50th anniversary of his debut album, Closing Time, with a new reissue. More recently, he reissued his “mid-period” Island Records albums, including Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Bone Machine. New music isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility, as Waits’ music agent, Paul Charles, recently revealed that his client is “writing again.”
Meanwhile, Iggy Pop released his latest album, Every Loser, this past January ahead of a spring US tour and headlining appearance at Cruel World Festival.
Tom Waits to Co-Host BBC Radio Special with Iggy Pop
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