A retrospective on Tom Waits driven by the re-mastering and re-issue of 3 of his classic albums. Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years from the 1980-1988 period when he got married and shifted into a higher gear. #music #TomWaits
The article also has plenty of gems in the comments too.
I know him more from film collaborations with Jim Jarmusch which dated from around the same time. But will be interested to listen to those albums again.

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra