Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon whiskey, bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre- rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up ... Read More
