Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski are literary brothers, and Waits' song "Franks Wild Years" is a testament to their shared ...

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

A deep dive into the songwriting style of Tom Waits, guided by the man himself, as he explains the core elements of his craft ...

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3. “Falling Down” (Big Time, 1988) This was the only studio cut on Waits’ ’88 live album. Here, Scarlett sounds very like Liz Frazer, which is effectively the vocal setting she operates in ...

The announcement of Willie Nelson's 76th studio album, Last Leaf on the Tree, comes with good news and better news. The good ...

The album sounds like an eclectic blend of ’70s folk, Tom Waits, Dylan and Weird Al Yankovic. Where did the musical inspiration come from? “Well, I had a traumatic childhood, you know ...

It opens with Tom Waits’ title song, with producer and multi-instrumentalist Micah Nelson, Willie’s son, ensuring that Trigger, Nelson’s much-travelled guitar, gets plenty of room to roam. The sound ...

His new record — the 76th studio album in a recording career dating back to 1962 — is mostly composed of covers, helmed by his musician son Micah Nelson. The title track is a Tom Waits song in ...