Tom Waits has remembered the late and legendary Saturday Night Live music producer Hal Willner with a touching essay.
The gravel-voiced all-rounder paints a picture in glorious detail of a one-off visionary and eccentric who could tell stories better than any book. “Hal was the wry and soulful and mysterious historical rememberer,” reads a tribute co-authored by Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan. “He specialized in staging strange musical bedfellows like Betty Carter and the Replacements or The Residents backing up Conway Twitty.
Oh, the wild seeds of Impresario Hal." Waits recalls Willner’s collection of oddities as a trove that would make a museum curator salivate. “He was drawn equally to the danger of a fiasco and the magical power of
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