A diet of throat lozenges and cigarettes are in order here.

As a man from Birmingham once said to me. "Tom Waits for no man"

 K-Cap wrote: 
Excellent!!!!

Mr. Springsteen!!


you'll have to cut back on the Camels if you want to be successful at the recording game...

 mburjaw wrote: 
I'm with scrubbrush; looks like Nick Cave to me.

 calypsus_1 wrote: 
I've seen several of these in New Orleans with different musicians / politicos.  They're very cool.   Class project?    If so, do more and print em up and sell em!  What are you waiting for???  :-)

looks like John Hiatt

 scrubbrush wrote: 

This is simply outstanding

For those who prefer the "early Waits" as "so listenable" ... to each his own.  But to those of us who love both the early and later Waits, this is a bit hearing someone praise a good 4-year-old Kentucky rye whisky as "so drinkable", when you've already developed the taste for a fine 18-year-old Bourbon.

1973 !?!?!

A touch of Harry Chapin....

I appreciate any piece that casts doubt on love.

I actually liked him back when he could sing.  So gawdawful now.

 ghoffman wrote: 
Rotten, as in Johnny Rotten (b. John Joseph Lydon) ?

 scrubbrush wrote: 
I agree with all except the last.  Who is Rotten?

Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, ?

Very nice drawing! 

Just a beautiful song.

I'm not a fan, but this is LOVELY.  The writing and the NICE singing (no gravel in his voice).  So heartfelt.  Nice job, Tom.

 calypsus_1 wrote: 
Beautiful piece.
my guess:
Cohen, Young, Costello, Waits, Dylan, Cave(?), Rotten.

Golden Throats by ~kenmeyerjr
©2007-2010 ~kenmeyerjr

This was done for a class project, and is a proposed cover for a fictional cd called "Golden Throats: A Matter of Opinion." Name 'em all!

Avett Brothers, then Tom!  I am in musical heaven.  Keep it coming.

I'm not typically much of a Tom Waits fan (though maybe I just haven't listened to enough of him to really know how good he really is yet), but I really enjoy this one every time it comes up here on RP.

Ok, now that's Tom Waits. What a beautiful song. So plaintive, perfectly crafted.

Simply beautiful and made even more so because of Tom's etching it in his subdued, yet still signature rough-hewn vocals.  

 nagsheadlocal wrote: 
I enjoy all of his music and I don't find his "periods" to be distinctly different from each other anyhow.  His lyrics and music have always been brilliant.  I don't "take offense" from the idea that someone may prefer his earlier tracks, however.  This is a beautiful, poignant song.

 TanteJensen wrote: 
Voted an 8, but then dropped the average to 8.5.  Revised to a 10, back to 8.6.

Sorry for any inconvenience. 

 Pyro wrote: 
I was going to say this but the "later Tom" fans always take offense. I sure do have very fond memories of his first four albums and how I could listen to them for hours and imagine the world he lived in. His sharply-observed lyrics always held my attention.

Ah, Tom. One of my favorite albums of all time, and one of my favorite cuts.

"Early Tom" is so poignant (and listenable)!  I wish his voice had held up better....

Xeric wrote:
Yup, me too. So glad I'm not there any more. But glad to hear this as well.

Edit: Huh! Voting this a 10 instead of a 9 improves the average rating by one tenth to 8.6. Well then.