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Tom Waits
Foreign Affairs
on Asylum Records (7E-1117)
Condition: Cover is VG Record is VG

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 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 , 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- styles such as , , and , and experimental tendencies verging on , Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and and has acted in supporting roles in films, including and ; he also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film . He was nominated for an for his soundtrack work on .

Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often 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 through cover versions by more commercial artists: "", performed by , "", performed by the , and "", performed by . 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 for two albums, and . In 2011, Waits was inducted into the .

Waits lives in , with his wife and musical collaborator , and three children.

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