Tom Waits at 75: How a music legend became cinema’s great unsung character actor. The gravelly-voiced musician has played Dracula’s minion, a dogged prospector and the Devil himself, finding ...

Tom Waits has actually scared me, and I know coming in every week that I’ll be dealing scary material. I thought I was immune. I was Johnny Good-Time, just laughing at some weird lyrics.

The third act of Tom Waits’s glittering career began when his wife went to the dentist. Waiting her turn to open wide, in 1994, Kathleen Brennan happened upon a story in a reception-room copy of ...

It’s been several years since Tom Waits last performed in public, but now the legendary musician makes an appearance in an Italian docuseries. The eighth episode of The Human Factor is centered ...

The announcement of Willie Nelson‘s 76th studio album, Last Leaf on the Tree, comes with good news and better news.The good news is that the lead single is Nelson’s cover of Tom Waits ...

Tom Waits Performs Poetry for New Documentary on American Homelessness "I am an individual who is deeply concerned with the inequities as we all are, but ill equipped to solve any of them," Tom ...

The nonagenarian's son, Micah, produced the album, which features renditions of songs by Waits, Neil Young, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Nina Simone, and others ...

Tom Waits did not write "Jersey Girl" for Bruce Springsteen to record. Let's clear that up right up front. It's just that once Springsteen did start playing the song live, it was hard to separate ...

His mother said the last time she saw her son was Sunday morning before he left for Douglas Lake. Author: wbir.com Published: 11:05 PM EDT June 9, 2025 ...

Renowned songwriter Tom Waits delivered a rare live performance at a New York event honoring the late Saturday Night Live longtime sketch music producer Hal Willner. The music producer passed in ...

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer ...

Tom Waits in 2011 (photo: Michael Loccisano / Getty Images). ... Real Gone, however, features some DJ scratching by his son Casey on a couple tracks and even beatboxing by the elder Waits, ...