Country music needs to be authentic and relatable, and it's that necessity which put Tom Waits off a lot of different musicians.

Tom Waits' first new original music in 15 years is "Boots on the Ground," a vividly gruesome indictment of wars both foreign and domestic that he recorded with Massive Attack (for their first new ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of both Tom Waits’ Mule Variations and the record label Anti, an unreleased “Spiritual” rendition of the standout “Get Behind the Mule” has been unearthed for the first ...

Tom Waits is an American singer and songwriter as well as a composer and actor. Childhood & Early Music Career: Tom Waits was born in Pomona, California. His mother was Alma Johnson McMurray and his ...

Included in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Song Writers of All Time and a 2011 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom ...

The vast majority of musicians who end up in court are there for behavioral or musical copyright issues, but when Tom Waits went to court in April 1990, he was going head-to-head with a different kind ...

Having spent nearly 30 years not performing in Houston, Tom Waits could've stepped onstage at Jones Hall Sunday night, played Fannin Street, walked off and left the faithful musing about how it was ...

In 1999, scraggly-voiced junkyard wizard Tom Waits released Mule Variations, his first album in six years. The big punk label Epitaph started its offshoot imprint Anti- specifically to release Mule ...

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 ...

Tom Waits did not write “Jersey Girl” for Bruce Springsteen to record. Let’s clear that up right up front. It’s just that once Springsteen did start playing the song live, it was hard to separate the ...