Regarded by many as one of the finest songwriters in the American canon, and a distinctive urban storyteller beyond compare, Tom Waits has long been hailed for his chronicles of the dispossessed, and his characterful deep-throated vocal style.
From 1973's inaugural LP Closing Time to 2011's Bad as Me, Tom Waits' body of recorded work has been cherished and cited by many of music's key figures as key to their own development. He remains the very personification of the authentic, outsider musician, living and breathing the ramshackle ethos that is imbued within his records.
For many Waits-heads, it’s his mid-eighties trilogy that also marked his first major label records; Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years, that are pointed to as his most musically engrossing period.
