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

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 ...

Tom Waits has shared a previously unreleased version of “Get Behind the Mule.” The song, which originally appeared on his Grammy-winning 1999 studio album Mule Variations, is coming out to ring in the ...

Often referred to as that gravelly-voiced musician who sounds like he’s been gargling razor blades with a whiskey chaser, Tom Waits is without a doubt one of the defining musicians of the late 20th ...

When the news seems an unending doomscroll of bad news and darkness, one palliative virtually guaranteed to lighten the soul's burden is to put on Waits' "Mule Variations" and ride it all the way to ...