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 ...
Hippies flocked to The Whole in the 1970s to see up-and-coming songwriters that would later become famous, such as Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt and Townes Van Zandt, to name a few. Jon Bream, music critic ...