Capsule review: Tom Waits - Blood money (2002)

Diddn ya hee-ah miwewy iz de wiwe o'de wowld? Tom adds Speech Impediment Sam to his cast of characters.

Capsule review: Tom Waits - Alice (2002)

Regrettable when an artist sells out to the commercial trade, but even more of a shame when an artist sells out to art. Couldn't they have gotten a Tom Waits lookalike to belt out these bloodless theatre props? Poor Edward and Table Top Joe would surely not have been any the wiser.

Capsule review: Tom Waits - Small change (1976)

Tom deserves more than another snark about a boho drowning in syrup -but he makes it so easy!
Still, four minutes into 'I wish I was in New Orleans' you really wish he was in New Orleans, where they'd put some bounce into these songs, and not in Hollywood CA, where they drown 'em in somnambulant soundstages.
Some survive ('Tom Traubert's blues', 'Invitation to the blues', 'Bad liver and a broken heart'). An undeserving classic though.