Tom Waits Shares Rare Performance of ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’ in Italian Documentary

Waits performed a pair of songs and recited poetry in an episode of The Human Factor, which tackled homelessness in the ...
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Tom Waits Performs “Tom Traubert’s Blues” in Docuseries The Human Factor: Watch

Tom Waits has released his performance of "Tom Traubert's Blues" from The Human Factor, an Italian docuseries about ...

‘Rain Dogs’ turns 40: Celebrating Tom Waits’ greatest album - and his unparalleled discography

On 30 September 1985, Tom Waits released 'Rain Dogs'. To celebrate his favourite album’s 40th anniversary, Waits obsessive David Mouriquand explains why it’s worth revisiting (or discovering). And ...

The artist Tom Waits said was a “rite of passage” to meet

While Tom Waits has always presented himself as something of a character, he couldn't have prepared himself for meeting with ...
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Jim Jarmusch & Anika announce collab score for new film 'Father Mother Sister Brother' (that stars Tom Waits)

Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother' is out December 24 and the soundtrack is out November 21 on Sacred Bones.

The single most “boring” band in America, according to Tom Waits and John Lydon

Tom Waits once said, “I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.” You get the sense that John Lydon would agree ...
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Tom Waits and Howlin' Wolf: More Alike than You Thought

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...
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Waits Variations: Six Ways of Looking at Tom Waits, Character Actor

In Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie, and cradles a white bunny in his arms. This is precisely ...