Harry Bluestone

Small Change

by Trevor MacLaren
March 2, 2004

Tom Waits is unlike any singer/songwriter before or since he burst on the scene with Closing Time in 1973. His music has always been original and eclectic, guiding his audience along an evolution from drunken skid row crooner to his present role as western music's deconstruction magician. Throughout a catalogue that spans thirty plus years of gushing genius, jazz has always been a foundation for much of Waits' ideological structures. His seventies output on David Geffen's Asylum label is not ...