Wikipedia : This day ( December 7, 1949), in Pomona, California, is born Thomas Alan ‘Tom’ Waits, an American singer, songwriter and actor.
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Anti Records : Bad As Me is Tom Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan.
@last.fm : He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit ‘n’ sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle, although Waits’s views are more egalitarian than Bukowski’s.
@Discogs : Tom Waits has gathered a large cult following over the years around the globe, mainly because Waits has spun his own world in music far apart from anything present. This has led him to be an major inspiration to modern-day generation of musicians
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