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

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 ...

Tom Waits has released his performance of his 1976 song “Tom Traubert’s Blues” for the Italian docuseries Il Fattore Umano (The Human Factor), which aired earlier this year. Waits participated in the ...

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 ...

It may have been our last edition of our monthly Now Playing test track rundown, or perhaps the edition before, where I got all misty-eyed about Tom Waits’ signature ballad Martha. Wherever and ...

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 ...

After a sold-out, SIX STAR(!) performance, Grammy and Emmy Award Winning musician Paul Bogaev is back by popular demand with an evening of songs from legendary songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Tom ...

MOBILE-- If a town's hipness is directly proportional to the number of tickets Tom Waits sells there, Mobile hasn't quite arrived. Michael O'Brien Tom Waits' "Glitter and Doom" tour bypassed New ...