When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he was a golden-voiced, handsome piano player/crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...

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 ...

They didn’t have to come from behind. Sure, they trailed at points, but not by much. Matthew Knight Arena was on its feet, but not for any... Over the course of the past 30 years, singer/songwriter ...

Harmonium, calliope, homemade percussion instruments - anything that makes a sound can show up on a Tom Waits song now. While Waits' sound has changed, he didn't become a brand-new person, even as a ...

March 9 -- "I don't have the words to describe what went down," veteran blues singer and guitarist John Hammond says of the recording of his new album, Wicked Grin, which will be released on ...