16 shells from a thirty-ought six by Tom Waits

Genre: Rock
Year: 2008

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) 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, 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 a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stokers Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits songs frequently Read full article at wikipedia.org

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