Waits: Creating music 'with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in'

Tom Waits is as potent and unpredictable a musical force as most of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, and that's not faint praise. The graveyard croak of his gravelly, bellowing baritone is righteous, paint-scraping, unmistakable; it scatters small animals and slaps your synapses to startled attention.

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