Nobody seems to know the meaning here. Please let me know if you have any ideas at all. Here's all I can think of (and it's very incomplete).
We all know that, whilst writing this incredible album, she was going through a lot of hurt as the result of Tom Waits' sudden split to New York. She, and he, Chuck E., and so on, were all part of a gang of musicians and drinkers who hung out at The Troubadour (amongst other joints) and had a lot of fun and a lot of original ideas. Each character was probably pretty unique. Perhaps they may collectively have been "Wild and the Only ones"; a group of artists, undamming those crazy "ideas you never tell to anyone"; that hive of creativity (and love of life and liquor) the "magnets pulling each of you there" if not the attraction which drew Waits and Jones into a brief, and ultimately painful, relationship.
Rickie Lee Jones told DJ and music-journo Simon Barnett about "Cunt-Finger Louie" in an interview which the BBC never ultimately broadcast. It's in the archives somewhere and deserves to be heard.
According to RLJ, elsewhere, he was one of many funny stories told by her friend and sometime collaborator, Sal Bernadi.
Nobody seems to know the meaning here. Please let me know if you have any ideas at all. Here's all I can think of (and it's very incomplete).
We all know that, whilst writing this incredible album, she was going through a lot of hurt as the result of Tom Waits' sudden split to New York. She, and he, Chuck E., and so on, were all part of a gang of musicians and drinkers who hung out at The Troubadour (amongst other joints) and had a lot of fun and a lot of original ideas. Each character was probably pretty unique. Perhaps they may collectively have been "Wild and the Only ones"; a group of artists, undamming those crazy "ideas you never tell to anyone"; that hive of creativity (and love of life and liquor) the "magnets pulling each of you there" if not the attraction which drew Waits and Jones into a brief, and ultimately painful, relationship.
Rickie Lee Jones told DJ and music-journo Simon Barnett about "Cunt-Finger Louie" in an interview which the BBC never ultimately broadcast. It's in the archives somewhere and deserves to be heard.
According to RLJ, elsewhere, he was one of many funny stories told by her friend and sometime collaborator, Sal Bernadi.
As for Eddie and his crazy eye — who knows?