Tom Waits turns 72 today, but don’t expect him to mark the occasion in any sort of public way. The cult favorite singer-songwriter has kept a very low public profile during the past decade and has ...

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 ...

MORE obviously than many songwriters of our time, Tom Waits is a lover of words -- of their sound and the ways in which they can slide or slam into one another, specific and ambiguous, hard and soft.