When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In "Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters" (Chicago Review Press, $19.95), editor Paul Maher Jr. has compiled more than 50 interviews from Waits to "illustrate his creative progression ...

The legendary singer-songwriter, composer and actor has not signed with an agency for over 20 years. By Billboard Staff Tom Waits Performing - H 2014 For the first time in more than two decades, Tom ...

Tom Waits took us all out with him as he went “(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night.” That title hints at what we should expect. It doesn’t promise we’ll find what we’re seeking, which means ...

When Eddie Skuller takes the stage at My Father’s Place on Oct. 18, he will not be trying to mimic Tom Waits’ gravelly growl. Instead, the veteran New York singer-songwriter will deliver “Ballads of ...

The music of Tom Waits has inspired many for generations, and local vocalist Madeline McNeill will be looking to do him justice at the Hamilton Studio Listening Room this weekend. McNeill, with her ...

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 ...

No assessment of the interchange between jazz music and the spoken word idiom in contemporary music can be complete without paying a visit to Small Change, the fourth studio album by singer and ...

Because Waits doesn't have the requisite war-horse hits that people long to hear every single summer or the sort of rock-band overhead that makes touring obligatory, there's an eventfulness that comes ...