For readers who are new to Waits, here’s my recommended playlist of songs (in chronological order of release) to check out. It leans heavily toward the two albums I consider his best: “Rain Dogs” ...

The terrain traveled by Tom Waits is riddled with dreamers and the schemers, fractured beauties, snake oil salesmen, two-bit criminals and that guy who sleeps in his car parked in an alley. His mostly ...