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 ...

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

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 ...

Beginning July 31, subscribers to Tom Waits' email list began receiving a series of cryptic messages. Each comprised only a photograph (Waits with eye patch and scimitar; Waits with floating ...

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’ ...

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The post Tom Waits to Co-Host BBC Radio Special with Iggy Pop appeared first on Consequence. Tom Waits is set to reunite with Iggy Pop next month when they co-host a two-hour special on BBC Radio 6 ...

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.

Tom Waits has shared a tribute to his friend Hal Willner who died from coronavirus complications last week. “If you took a cross section of Hal’s heart… you would see the rings of a wise old tree,’ ...

Tom Waits and collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan penned a tribute to late producer and longtime friend, Hal Willner. Willner died last week at the age of 64. The cause of death has not yet been ...

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 ...