How Tom Waits Became the Poet of Noir
Most musicians write songs. Tom Waits builds entire neighborhoods populated by drunks, gamblers, washed-up dreamers, lonely lovers, criminals, and ghosts. His characters wander through bars that never seem to close, streets illuminated by flickering signs, and cities where hope survives only because nobody has yet found the strength to kill it completely.
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