Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Tom WaitsThomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Lyrically, Waits' songs contain atmospheric portrayals of bizarre, seedy characters and places, although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists—for example, "Jersey Girl," performed by Bruce Springsteen; "Downtown Train" and "Tom Traubert's Blues" performed by Rod Stewart; and "Ol' '55," performed by the Eagles. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and their three children.

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Total 82 sheet(s) found, listing between 40 - 60.
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On the Nickel (over there) Paxalot (2)
5012d ago
7 Piano, Vocal Transcription
Songbook Regnessem (1)
5013d ago
111 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Book
Blue Valentines fakka (39)
5016d ago
0 Guitar Tab
Alice (book) Ellinna (747)
5016d ago
51 Piano, Vocal Book
Alice tina_reischer (6)
5028d ago
0 Guitar Tab
Alice bog77 (16)
5033d ago
56 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Book
Big Black Mariah salva (29)
5033d ago
4 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Hang Down Your Head salva (29)
5033d ago
4 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
Take it with me cirquedukat (1)
5035d ago
5 Piano Book
Blood money indiejeannie (7)
5048d ago
52 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Other
Anthology indiejeannie (7)
5048d ago
133 Piano, Guitar Book
Ol' 55 Peegilleen (4)
5055d ago
5 Piano Other
tom waits alice sheet book simensax (3)
5058d ago
56 Piano Original
oldies dlange1988 (3)
5068d ago
45 Piano Original
oldies collection dlange1988 (3)
5068d ago
64 Piano Original
Anthology dlange1988 (3)
5068d ago
50 Piano Original
Alice allisona (3)
5071d ago
4 Piano Transcription
Blue Valentines oeteg (2)
5076d ago
0 Piano, Guitar Tab
tom traubert's blues maxosch (1)
5076d ago
7 Piano Original
Jersey Girl daniellafish (45)
5092d ago
4 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Book