Old music: Tom Waits - Martha

Tom Waits is such a one-off that even his juvenilia suggests wisdom beyond his yearsWritten in 1973, when Tom Waits was just 24, Martha finds this earliest incarnation of one of the US's most intriguing musical characters dropping comfortably into the slippers of a much, much older man. Calling long-distance to an old flame, he lays his heart bare about their past together, his current married status, and offers the beautifully underplayed revelation that he is still in love with her.Tom Waits h...

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