Tom Waits might be an acquired taste for many, but even he knew the greatest tunes of all time have that same starting point.

For such an enigmatic artist, the song that changed Tom Waits' life is predictably unpredictable, connecting to a musical ...

When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...

Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...

Back when Tom Waits released Real Gone, I used the concept of the essential nature of a pair of bluejeans to illustrate how that record could be used to get at what Waits' music is all about—an ...

When Johnny Cash released his three-CD box set in 2000, he grouped his favorite songs not by chronology but around the three main themes of his career: “Love,” “God” and “Murder.” Tom Waits has done ...

To celebrate 40 years of 'Rain Dogs', here are four must-know tracks from an Americana masterpiece by Tom Waits.

In 1988 Tom Waits recorded a version of “Heigh Ho! (The Dwarfs’ Marching Song)” for the Disney tribute Stay Awake. It was one of those covers that seemed almost too good to be true. Waits’ ...

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.

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Alice and Blood Money, two disparate yet profoundly connected works being released the same day (May 7), are credited solely to Tom Waits, which is a bit like recognizing only the shopkeeper for the ...