READ MORE: How Tom Waits Made 'Rain Dogs' Into a Boozy, Ghostly Masterpiece This happened to Tom Waits in 1990. In 1988, a commercial for a new product made by the Frito-Lay snack food company ...

Mule Variations from 1999 is a fan favorite album from Tom Waits. “Take It With Me” is just one standout track from that album. This song is a divergence from the typical Waits song.

Tom Waits has made a rare appearance on a new documentary about homelessness, in which he also performed songs from his catalogue. The singer-songwriter appeared in the latest episode of Italian ...

It’s been several years since Tom Waits last performed in public, but now the legendary musician makes an appearance in an Italian docuseries. The eighth episode of The Human Factor is centered ...

"I am an individual who is deeply concerned with the inequities as we all are, but ill equipped to solve any of them," Tom Waits explained. By Tyler Jenke Tom Waits has added his talents to the ...

"The blood is the life" has been used in multiple adaptations as a significant moment in the character's haunting arc – most memorably, Tom Waits as Renfield rasped the Dracula quote word for ...

The best Tom Waits songs play like cult midnight movies, full of wild scenes and strange characters. “Goin’ Out West”, for example, spins the tale of a rough-beast wannabe who’s come to ...

A Grammy Award-winning musician known for his raspy voice, darkly humorous lyrics, and unusual instrumentation, Tom Waits ... Coppola recruited Waits to play raving lunatic Renfield in "Bram ...

With his gravely voice and timeless observations, Tom Waits is an innately autumnal figure; there was good reason for Francis Ford Coppola to cast him as Renfield in the director’s sumptuous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Waits, according to the esteemed American critic Robert Hilburn, is clearly one of the most important figures of the modern pop era. Such sentiments are not mere hyperbole; in a career that now ...