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

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Today, December 7, is Tom Waits’ seventy-fifth birthday. What better way to honor ...