March 9 -- "I don't have the words to describe what went down," veteran blues singer and guitarist John Hammond says of the recording of his new album, Wicked Grin, which will be released on ...

Few musicians have captured the emotional complexity of being an American in the 20th and 21st centuries with as much elegance and nuance as Tom Waits. Blending blues, jazz, rock, and experimental ...

Tom Waits' blues inauguration occurred back in 1978 when he got up from the piano, picked up the guitar and recorded the tunes that became "Blue Valentine," a love letter of sorts to a ruddy ...

“No, thanks” might not have been the exact words executives at Elektra/Asylum, Tom Waits’ original label, communicated to their “prestige” artist when declining to release Swordfishtrombones (1983) ...

Tom Waits is perhaps the quintessential cult artist, despite recording for large labels alongside successful commercial acts for his entire career. Widely regarded as one of America’s finest ...

Tom Waits’ work may be timeless, but it hasn’t stopped time from catching up to the songwriting legend. Today, 50 years into ...

Bones Howe, Waits’s one-time record producer – a man associated, ironically, with the "sunshine pop” genre that included “Up Up and Away” and such classics as “California Dreamin’” – was a case in ...

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. Rather than ...

Starring in Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother', which just won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Euronews Culture takes a look back at the indelible – and often ...