Heard through the wall of a neighboring apartment, you might confuse Tom Waits's music with Howlin' Wolf's. Then again, you could just as easily mistake it for a long-lost Harry Partch piece, an ...

Tom Waits banks on the unexpected. His own style, as varied as it is indefinable, changes with the weather. Each new change though, however drastic, is no less or more true to Waits’s body of work ...