Tom Waits

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits on December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor.

1990's

Waits appeared on Primus' 1991 album, Sailing the Seas of Cheese as the voice of "Tommy the Cat", which exposed him to a new audience in alternative rock. This was the first of several collaborations between Waits and the group; Les Claypool (Primus' singer, songwriter and bassist) would appear on several subsequent Waits releases.

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Primus - 1991 - Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Alternative rock - Les Claypool

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Bone Machine was released in 1992. Critic Steve Huey calls it "Perhaps Tom Waits' most cohesive album ... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative -- and often harrowing -- effect ... Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible."http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xsyvad1kv8w6 Bone Machine was awarded a Grammy. (Incidentally, "Bone Machine" was a song on The Pixies' earlier Surfer Rosa, though it's uncertain whether Waits borrowed the term from the Pixies, or developed it independently.)

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Bone Machine - 1992 - Steve Huey - Nightmare - Grammy - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

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Waits wrote and conducted the music for Jim Jarmusch's 1993 film Night on Earth, which was released as an album. The Black Rider is the result of a theatrical collaboration between Waits, director Robert Wilson and writer William S. Burroughs.

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1993 - Night on Earth - The Black Rider - Robert Wilson - William S. Burroughs

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Mule Variations was issued in 1999, and also won a Grammy. It was Waits' first release for Anti Records.

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Mule Variations - 1999 - Anti Records

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