‘He tried to incorporate the whole history of American song into his loose-limbed poetic storytelling’: Tom Waits in 1983. Photograph: Michael O’Brien Forty years on from the magnificent album ...
Exactly how and why Tom Waits made Swordfishtrombones three decades ago can only be understood by first heading even further back and attempting to piece together the man’s unlikely tectonic shift ...
Excerpted from “Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones” by David Smay (Continuum, 2007). Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. In an otherwise favorable review, Robert Christgau accused Tom’s ...
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