Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Tom Waits lets the song wind his wife around him – warmly, tenderly, with the delicate touch of a man who can't quite believe his luckThere are, to my thinking, few more perfect love songs than Tom Waits's Johnsburg, Illinois. It's the simplest of tributes, 13 short lines of adoration – a distillation of love, in a way. "She's my only true love," it begins. "She's all that I think of. Look here in my wallet, that's her."Waits wrote Johnsburg, Illinois for his wife, Kathleen Brennan, though t...

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