The country singer Tom Waits said most others couldn’t match: “The greatest voices of all time”

Tom Waits praised this country legend, saying that he had a voice and talent that none of the others in the genre could live ...

The DIY attitude that led to Tom Waits’ greatest album

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of ...
American Songwriter

The Tom Waits Lyric That Equates a Run-Down Building to a Lack of Love

Tom Waits reached back to his classic ballad style for "House Where Nobody Lives". The 1999 classic highlighted his album 'Mule Variations'.
American Songwriter

Review: Tom Waits’ Gives Essential Island Albums a Long Overdue Overhaul

“No, thanks” might not have been the exact words executives at Elektra/Asylum, Tom Waits’ original label, communicated to their “prestige” artist when declining to release Swordfishtrombones (1983) ...