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

Often referred to as that gravelly-voiced musician who sounds like he’s been gargling razor blades with a whiskey chaser, Tom Waits is without a doubt one of the defining musicians of the late 20th ...

Tom Waits moved from California to New York shortly after releasing Swordfishtrombones in 1983. The experimental arrangements of his eighth studio album put his lyrics into clearer focus, but it also ...