When the Rolling Stones guitarist arrived to work with him on the 1985 album Rain Dogs, Waits was blown away by Keith's ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Tom Waits, despite his personal success (Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 100 singers and Top 100 songwriters, Academy Award nomination) writes songs ...

Tom Waits sings his songs like a play-by-play of a good night in a rough bar. This is a friendly, if gruff tune from the perspective of a good-time barfly from 1985’s Rain Dogs.

Tom Waits recorded his new album Bad As Me, his first collection of all-new studio recordings in eight years, in his studio, which he calls "Rabbit Foot" for good luck.The space, a converted ...

LOS ANGELES —Tom Waits has given the devil his due with wry song lyrics, asking if the devil made the “world while God was sleeping” or musing “don't you know there ain't no devil, there's ...

Tom Waits at 75: How a music legend became cinema’s great unsung character actor. The gravelly-voiced musician has played Dracula’s minion, a dogged prospector and the Devil himself, finding ...

On Tom Waits writing about people we know: Moorer: He does seem to draw up marginal characters a lot — people who are either stuck in life or we don't consider them people that we see.

Waits and Wilson first worked together, with William S. Burroughs, on 1989's "The Black Rider," a dark retelling of a German fairy tale about a man who loses his soul in a deal with the Devil.

The third act of Tom Waits’s glittering career began when his wife went to the dentist. Waiting her turn to open wide, in 1994, Kathleen Brennan happened upon a story in a reception-room copy of ...

With “Come On Up To the House: Women Sing Waits,” musicians including Patty Griffin, Aimee Mann, Rosanne Cash, sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer, and Iris Dement uncover the melodic ...