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     • Tom Waits (born December 7, 1949, Pomona, California, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter and actor whose gritty, sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and prominent musicians who performed and recorded his songs.
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   • Tom Waits c. 1974–75. Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.

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   What does Tom Waits sound like?

   • The first thing that stands out about Tom Waits is undoubtedly his voice -- which, as he recently put it, is often described as the sound of someone who “growls about booze and gargles with nails and screws.” Beyond that, of course, it's his music that people know, although probably not his own versions of it.

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   How did Tom Waits get his first job?

   • Tom Waits got his first job in 1965, when he was 15. For the next few years, he cooked, washed dishes, and serviced toilets in a National City, California, pizza house. "After that," said Waits, “I worked in a jewellery store,” he recalls. “Oh, I was a firefighter for a while, and drove an ice cream truck.

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   Is Tom Waits still a word guy?

   • Indeed, the art of Tom Waits has altogether transcended time and, to some degree, place. [ 1 ] Asked about the distinction between words and music, he says: "I'm still a word guy.

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   How did Tom Waits influence artists?

   • Waits has influenced artists in other fields. Kazuo Ishiguro recalls how Waits influenced his novel The Remains of the Day: I thought I’d finished Remains, but then one evening heard Tom Waits singing his song "Ruby’s Arms". It’s a ballad about a soldier leaving his lover sleeping in the early hours to go away on a train. Nothing unusual in that.

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   Does Tom Waits listen to his back catalogue?

   • Tom Waits told NPR in 2011 that he rarely listens to his back catalogue. He said: "By the time you're done, you don't even want to hear an album for a year. The songs have kind of grown up around you like vines, and you just want to distance yourself from it. And then when you hear it, it's like an old buddy.

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3. faroutmagazine.co.uk › tom-waits-10-best-songs10 of Tom Waits’ greatest songs of all time - Far Out Magazine

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   Dec 7, 2020 · While ‘Cemetery Polka’, ‘Hang Down Your Head’, ‘Time’, ‘Downtown Train’ and ‘Singapore’ are all classics, it is the Side Two opener and the titular track that stands out as one of his best. The song was inspired by Martin Bell’s Streetwise, a documentary about nine homeless youngsters in Seattle.

4. www.popmatters.com › 15-best-tom-waits-songsThe 15 Best Tom Waits Songs - PopMatters

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   • “16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six” (Swordfishtrombones, 1983) A shuffling, slouching tale of a long strange trip through some unnamed wilderness with a crow trapped in a guitar and a mule as traveling buddies, “16 Shells” was borne of Waits’ obsession with old prison work-gang chants.
   • “Anywhere I Lay My Head” (Rain Dogs, 1985) At a New Orleans funeral, it’s traditional to have a brass band play a song as a dirge on the way to the cemetery and then as a high-spirited march on the way back.
   • “Goin’ Out West” (Bone Machine, 1992) Stark, eerie, and hilarious, “Goin’ Out West” is the highlight of Bone Machine.
   • “Hell Broke Luce” (Bad As Me, 2011) Taking its title from a piece of graffiti carved into the walls of Alcatraz during a prison break, “Hell Broke Luce” finds Waits agitating on behalf of one of his favorite causes: the beleaguered Army grunt.

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   • “Take It With Me” (Mule Variations, 1999) This song turns it all upside down, trading in Waits’ typical portraits of yearning and rambunctious vagrancy for transcendent images of love and goodness.
   • “Downtown Train” (Rain Dogs, 1985) From its shimmering electric-guitar lyricism to its perfectly conjured late-night New York imagery, “Downtown Train” is Waits’ most coherent statement of longing.
   • “Jersey Girl” (Heartattack and Vine, 1980) This is the best Bruce Springsteen song that Springsteen never wrote, and Springsteen himself knows it—he performed it at countless concerts in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
   • “Kentucky Avenue” (Blue Valentine, 1978) “Kentucky Avenue” is a “Desolation Row”-level epic, told from the perspective of a child. Listen as Waits remembers the wild and weird events from the street he grew up on.

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   Tom Waits is one of the most distinctive and talented singer-songwriters of modern times. The Grammy-winning musician, who was nominated for an Oscar for his soundtrack work on One from the...

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   Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.

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   Dec 7, 2011 · Best Known for: That Voice. Sounds like he 'gargles with nails and screws' The first thing that stands out about Tom Waits is undoubtedly his voice -- which, as he recently put it, is often...

10. www.thecurrent.org › feature › 2019/12/02What are the best Tom Waits songs? - The Current

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    Dec 7, 2019 · Here's what we're going to do: based on your votes, we have compiled a list of the top 25 Tom Waits songs below, from which Mac Wilson and Eric Malmberg will broadcast highlights throughout the day on Saturday, December 7.