“The Laughing Heart.” – Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of ...

Tom Waits is an absolute legend, with a career that has spanned decades. Many of his fans are particularly fond of his early career work from the 1970s, and nothing quite matches the power of the 1973 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Today, December 7, is Tom Waits’ seventy-fifth birthday. What better way to honor ...

The vast majority of musicians who end up in court are there for behavioral or musical copyright issues, but when Tom Waits went to court in April 1990, he was going head-to-head with a different kind ...

Rain Dogs is forty years old today. I won’t get into all of it, because there is simply too much to get into, but I am thinking most about what we encounter at the record’s 46-minute mark: a song ...

Celebrities do deals with companies all the time. Normally, the brand and the celebrity work together such that both parties are satisfied with the result — contracts are signed, payment is agreed on, ...