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 ...
The 1974 Rolling Stone Music Awards gave the best-album honors to Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, and the Stones, while the Single of the Year was George McCrae’s disco banger “Rock ...