....."Remember me...?" Slumped on a park bench, at the bottom of the social heap, the drunken derelict turns his eyes to the heavens as the first flakes of snow begin to fall. "Remember me? I ordered the blonde, the Firebird, the Alligator shoes... Somebody's made a terrible mistake." Nobody loves, or understands, a loser quite as much as Tom Waits. For more than two decades, he has built up a unique body of work. His songs catalogue the ill starred dreams and fleeting consolations of life in that part of town dissected by the bus station, the bloodbank and the tattoo parlour, describing his gallery of pimps, drunks and small town girls ensnared by vice in a voice bruised by nicotine and alcohol and a musical style ranging from lounge jazz to vaudevillian polka. ........ America's most original storyteller.

Anybody else ever get into his material? If you're ever out there loking for something different and unexpected to listen to, go out and buy his best of. It's called 'Used songs', it's got a date range but I can't remember what they are now. Great album though.

Tom would be about middle 50's now ..remember he done a duet with Bett Midler ,think it Never Talk to Strangers or very similar to that also he worked with one of the Stones on an LP ,but can't recall the title still going strong after 35 years or so ..!!
K.R.O.