Protest songs take on a variety of forms. Songwriters can go the direct route and call out the issues that they want to tackle in their lyrics. The tricky part with this method is that the emotions of ...

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 ...

“I’ve always admired Tom Waits’ music, but I wasn’t ready to take on a show like this until now,” Skuller said. “Maybe it’s just being older or living through more things in life, but the songs struck ...