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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Chapters: Eels (band) albums, Eels (band) members, Eels (band) songs, Tom Waits, John Sebastian, T-Bone Burnett, Eels discography, Can't Help Falling in Love, Hombre Lobo, Adam Siegel, Lisa Germano, Sixteen Tons, Peter Buck, Jon Brion, I Put a Spell on You, Wally Gagel, Feeling Good, Electro-Shock Blues, Mark Oliver Everett, End Times, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, Tommy Walter, Grant-Lee Phillips, Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Parish, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Open the Door, I'm a Loser, Last Stop: This Town, Beautiful Freak, Tomorrow Morning, Souljacker, Too Busy Thinking About My Baby, Daisies of the Galaxy, I Am the Messiah, Your Lucky Day in Hell, The Dark End of the Street, Novocaine for the Soul, Jonathan Norton, Bad Dude in Love, Mr. E's Beautiful Blues, Broken Toy Shop, Ana Lenchantin, A Man Called E, Shootenanny!, Fresh Blood, That's Life, Poor Side of Town, Hey Man, Souljacker part I, Pretty Ballerina, Levity, Rock Show, Wayne Bergeron, Jennifer Eccles, MC Honky, Susan's House, I Want to Protect You, Cancer for the Cure, A Line in the Dirt, Michael Simpson, Flyswatter, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', Jeff Lyster, Andy Martin, Not for Airplay. Excerpt: 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 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 music 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 Down By Law, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Wristcutters: A Love Story. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals 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 to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' 55" by the Eagles and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. 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. In 2010, Waits was chosen to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children. Waits was born at Park Avenue hospital in Pomona, California to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray, both schoolteachers. His father was of Scots-Irish descent and his mother was Norwegian A
