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 ...
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 ...
The title track is a Tom Waits song in which Nelson Sr sings the part of a leaf doggedly refusing to fall from a tree. “The autumn took the rest but it won’t take me,” he sings amid a gentle ...
NBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt could retire next year — and his would-be successor, Tom Llamas, “waits impatiently” for his exit in what looks like a “slow motion coup d’état ...