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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of Tom Waits’ 'Mule Variations' and the record label Anti, an unreleased take on "Get Behind the Mule" has been unearthed.

Tom Waits sued Frito-Lay, the makers of Doritos chips, in 1988, eventually winning the case in 1990. Skip to main content Skip to site footer. Trending: Top American Bands of All Time; ...

Tom Waits Goes Head-To-Head With Doritos In April 1990. On April 10, 1990, the Tom Waits’ case against Frito-Lay went to court. According to court documents, Waits specifically sued the snack ...

Tom Waits’ Reaction By then, Waits was well-known for refusing to license his music and having an aversion to doing deals with brands. In 1981, he did a commercial with Purina dog food and would ...