By Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter It was just a matter of time before the iconic and eccentric singer-songwriter Tom Waits paid tribute to his friend Hal Willner, who died on April 7 with symptoms consistent with coronavirus.
Willner was renowned as a multi-talented producer of albums by Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams as well as elaborate multi-artist tribute compilations (featuring Waits) to Charles Mingus, Kurt Weil and others, not to mention the producer of nearly 40 years of music for “Saturday Night Live” sketches.
Waits did not disappoint. His moving tribute — written, like many of his songs, in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Brennan — appears in full below Hal.
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