Vote for your favorite Tom Waits songs, not just singles and hits. List of the best Tom Waits songs, ranked by fans like you. With his uniquely scratchy voice and offbeat take on old school jazz and blues, the prolific Waits is a singer-songwriter like no other. This one-of-a-kind ...
Waits’ twelfth studio album, The Black Rider, consists of studio versions of songs written by Waits for the Robert Wilson directed play of the same name. It’s very dark, very twisted, and some of the songs are a little too harsh for comfort. But for all its freakishness, it’s utte...
Part of the way Waits achieved that – especially since not all the songs in the stage version were sung by him – was to tap the many voices within him, in a very literal sense. Biff Dawes remembers, “Sometimes he wanted the sound of an old radio show or old blues recording [for ...
One thing's for certain though -- people cause each other pain in this world. Ladies, take it from Tom Waits -- Never love a truck driving man, because the bastard will just leave you to be a sailor. Oh -- no hang on, the track changed in the middle of that sentence. Christ, ...
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Sweet Megg: My Window Faces the South (2022, Turtle Bay): Here's where she dons her cowboy hat, rejiggers her band around steel guitar and fiddle, and swings west, drawing several times on Bob Wills, with other songs like "Tennessee Waltz" and even "Stardust" not so far removed. B...
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I’m doing songs with them I’ve never attempted outside the studio. They are all multi-instrumentalists and they polka like real men. We are the Borman Six and as Putney says, “The Borman Six have got to have soul.” ~~~ - Tom Waits ...
Tom Waits Waits, an offbeat troubadour from Pomona, Calif., made his debut in 1973 with "Closing Time." Other highlights of his discography include the albums "Rain Dogs" (1985) and "Mule Variations" (1999). His rough-hewn yet poetic songs have been covered by everyone from Rod Stewart ...
FPSHOT. The only exception was the opening track and lead-off single 'Handle With Care', which was recorded and mixed by Bill Bottrell at Bob Dylan's Malibu home studio before the idea of an album came into view. Don Smith tracked all of the other songs at Dave Stewart's Encino home...