The Jerry Cans

Jake Monaco (Dumplin’, Let’s Be Cops, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Jerry & Marge Go Large, Like a Boss, Keeping Up with the Joneses) has composed the original music for the upcoming Disney+ animated series Cars on the Road. The show is based on Pixar Animation Studios’ feature franchise and follows Lightning McQueen and his best friend Mater as they head east from Radiator Springs on a cross-country road trip to meet up with Mater’s sister. Marc Sondheimer is producing the project. Steve Purcell, Bobby Podesta and Brian Fee have directed the nine episodes of the show’s first season. Monaco has previously scored Pixar’s shorts series Forky Asks a Question, the Pixar SparksShorts film Out, the Toy Story short Lamp Life and also arranged score for the Academy Award-winning Sondheimer-produced Pixar short Piper. Cars on the Road will premiere on September 8, 2022 exclusively on Disney+.

In the work of American songwriter Tom Waits, swampy blues, Beat poetry, West Coast jazz, Tin Pan Alley, country, 1930s-era cabaret, and post-Civil War parlor songs meet neon-lit carnival music and the wheezing, clattering, experimental rhythms (often played by makeshift musical instruments from car radios to metal pipes and tin cans, hence his love of Edgard Varese and Harry Partch) form a keenly individual musical universe. It has often been imitated but never replicated.

Tom's day at the beach doesn't start out well. First he gets his swimsuit caught in the door of the beach house, and doesn't realize it until his intended dive in the ocean sends him snapping back and crashing through …