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 ...

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Tom Waits appeared on British television in October 1983 sounding like a man who had swallowed a gravel driveway and spent ...