I was eight years old when I experienced my first Tom Waits song. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Granted, at the age of eight, that wasn’t saying a lot, but the statement continues to ...

Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and ...

On October 4, 2004, a somewhat obscure album was released that Harp Magazine famously named as the best of the year in print, though evidence of this has been lost to time and the internet. And unless ...