Few musicians have captured the emotional complexity of being an American in the 20th and 21st centuries with as much elegance and nuance as Tom Waits. Blending blues, jazz, rock, and experimental ...

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...

For readers who are new to Waits, here’s my recommended playlist of songs (in chronological order of release) to check out. It leans heavily toward the two albums I consider his best: “Rain Dogs” ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The singer-songwriter, whose new album is called ‘Bad as Me,’ talks ...

Tom Waits' Grammy-winning Bone Machine was released 25 years ago this week — here's an exhaustively annotated track-by-track breakdown to celebrate. People will tell you Tom Waits’ best album is Rain ...

Tom Waits sat at a table at Pete’s Henny Penny in Petaluma last week talking about his forthcoming release, “Bad as Me.” The 61-year-old singer, songwriter, actor and roustabout calls record promotion ...

The terrain traveled by Tom Waits is riddled with dreamers and the schemers, fractured beauties, snake oil salesmen, two-bit criminals and that guy who sleeps in his car parked in an alley. His mostly ...