Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, 1982 (Robin Platzer/Getty Images) Over 40 years of loving Bob and still he astounds… his vodka paintbrush of absurdity, vaudeville, heartbreak and forgiveness and ...

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

Personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Waits spectacular middle-period albums—released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993—have been newly remastered from the original tapes and ...

Following 1985’s seminal and career-defining Rain Dogs (considered by many, including this writer, to be some of his very best work), Tom Waits and his then new collaborator and wife Kathleen Brennan ...

One of Waits’ most mournful songs is ‘Georgia Lee’, written after he heard about the discovery of a 12-year-old girl’s body ...

Since the 1973 release of his first album, "Closing Time," Waits has won over fans with his original songwriting and distinctive, gravelly vocal style. One reviewer calls Waits "the Ultimate hobo boho ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Musician Tom Waits, the subject of the new book ‘Lowside of the Road: A ...

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 ...

Over 40 years of loving Bob and still he astounds… his vodka paintbrush of absurdity, vaudeville, heartbreak and forgiveness and imagination of the infinite is still wet and painting backdrops ...