Tom Waits for No Man

Here’s a small bio piece from the San Francisco Chronicle about Ralph Carney who has played horns on many Tom Waits album’s including the incredible Rain Dogs. He also tells how the two first started working together:

Music producer Hal Willner, who was the sketch music coordinator for “Saturday Night Live” in its heyday, was an avid supporter of Carney’s music. Willner got Carney’s band Swollen Monkeys a small record deal and, in 1984, introduced him to a new transplant to New York named Tom Waits.

“Tom was doing a couple songs for a documentary called ‘Streetwise’ and he wanted to have a kind of Salvation Army sounding band,” Carney says. “I had a street band at the time and we just hit it off, I guess.”

CARNEY’S LITTLE CARNIVAL