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3 days ago · Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.
May 21, 2024 · Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter and actor whose gritty, sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and prominent musicians who performed and recorded his songs.
Mar 4, 2024 · Tom Waits Performs "16 Shells From A 30.6" and “In the Neighborhood” from the album 'Swordfish Trombones' and "Cemetery Polka" and “Walking Spanish” from the album 'Rain Dogs' Live On The Tube...
Sep 20, 2023 · Songbook: A Comprehensive Guide To Tom Waits’ Evolution From L.A. Romantic To Subterranean Innovator. As Tom Waits’ series of Island Records releases from the ‘80s and ‘90s are being reissued, take an album-by-album trip through the legendary singer/songwriter’s significant body of work. Jeff Terich.
Oct 3, 2023 · SPIN explores the robust discography of troubadour Tom Waits, who remains weird and wonderful more than 50 years into his career.
Sep 1, 2023 · We're looking back on Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits' radical journey of self-expression that turns 40 years old today.
Aug 27, 2023 · 10 Best Tom Waits Songs. #10 Never Let Go. from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006. ‘Never Let Go’ is the first of several Waits piano ballads on this list – his rough-hewn voice allows him to deliver sentiments that might feel mawkish from a prettier tone.
Sep 6, 2023 · In fact, listening to Tom Waits—especially the three ’80s records (1983’s Swordfishtrombones, 1985’s Rain Dogs, and 1987’s Franks Wild Years) that have just been reissued—you’re drawn deep into the lives of the characters that populate the world he creates, many of whom are succumbing—as we all are—to the whims of ...
Jul 12, 2023 · Tom Waits has announced a reissue series of all his Island Records albums from between 1983 and 1993, each of which has been newly remastered from the original tapes.
Sep 20, 2023 · When Tom Waits warned on “Underground,” the first song on his transformational 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, “there’s a rumblin’ groan down below,” he very well could have been describing the artistic awakening that made him a legend.
