synffTom Waits crafts gravelly, character-driven tales of society's underbelly, blending bluesy grit, jazz-inflected croons, and experimental clatter into a junkyard symphony of marimbas, beatboxing, and mutant brass.
Emerging from the 1970s folk scene, he evolved from piano-lounge melancholy on albums…
90 roots·121 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Tom Waits; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie + 86 more
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6 releases·2005-2021
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