Once described by Elton John as "the Jackson Pollock of song," Tom Waits is an inherently American artist. Over the past four decades, Waits' eccentric boho brew of junkyard scat, jazz, gutter blues, tin-pan alley excursions and avant-garde cabaret have howled into the ether and reverberated back again...transfigured into something wholly its own.
One day we will interview the man, dipping into all of the above - but until then, this; the BBC's 2017 documentary on Waits by filmmaker James Maycock:become a member or log in.
