Often referred to as that gravelly-voiced musician who sounds like he’s been gargling razor blades with a whiskey chaser, Tom Waits is without a doubt one of the defining musicians of the late 20th century, having released some of the most fascinating and least compromising music of the last 50 years.
Over the course of 17 studio albums, two film soundtracks and three live albums, his musical style has ranged from Kerouac-inspired numbers, whiskey-soaked jazz pieces, romantic blues ballads, theatrical polkas, and carnivalesque rumpas. Often humorous, always rich, and featuring the musical Dadaist’s unique croons, growls and guttural laughs, each of his releases are surprising in their own ways.
