Waits's first album on his new label, Mule Variations, was issued in 1999.

" The album Blue Valentine ( 1978 ) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings ( with the exception of album-opener " Somewhere " — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and " Kentucky Avenue ") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound.

It is Waits's only album to date to feature absolutely no piano on any of its tracks.

Waits beatboxes on the opening track, " Top of the Hill ", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's " vocal percussion " improvisations.

Waits's song " Trampled Rose " ( from Real Gone ) appeared on the critically acclaimed album Raising Sand, a collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Waits's would later collaborate with Wilson on the plays Alice ( 1992 ) and Woyzeck ( 2000 ), the music to which were released on the albums Alice and Blood Money, respectively.

* a musical by Robert Wilson and Tom Waits ; the songs from which are on Waits's Blood Money album

The Heart of Saturday Night ( 1974 ), featuring the song "( Looking for ) The Heart of Saturday Night ", revealed Waits's roots as a nightclub performer, with half-spoken and half-crooned ballads often accompanied by a jazz backup band.

Waits developed his acting career with several supporting roles and a lead role in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law in 1986, which also featured two of Waits's songs from Rain Dogs in the soundtrack.

On December 19, 1992 Alice, Waits's second theatrical project with Robert Wilson, premiered at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg.

Orphans also continues Waits's newfound interest in politics with " Road to Peace ", a song about the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

Jackson Browne's " These Days " and Tom Waits's " I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You " were among those included.

In 2006, Weiss released the album 23rd & Stout, an album more reminiscent of Waits's 80s output, featuring an exploration of many blues and rumba styles, as well as a tribute to Sterling Holloway, entitled " Sho ' Is Cold ".

Small Change, which was accompanied by the double A-side single " Step Right Up "/" The Piano Has Been Drinking ", was a critical and commercial success and far outsold any of Waits's previous albums.

The album won a Grammy in 2000 ; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album ( which he won ) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ( for the song " Hold On "), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy.

Heartattack and Vine, Waits's last studio album for Asylum, was released in 1980, featuring a developing sound that included both ballads (" Jersey Girl ") and rougher-edged rhythm and blues.

Bone Machine, Waits's first studio album in five years, was released in 1992.

Critic Steve Huey calls it " perhaps Tom Waits's 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.

Musical influences include singer / songwriter Tom Waits's 1975 live-in-the-studio album titled Nighthawks at the Diner, after the painting.

She had a small role as a showgirl in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, played a topless dancer in The Working Girls ( 1974 ), and purportedly posed for the cover of Tom Waits's 1976 album, Small Change.

Waits's own version, from Frank's Wild Years, was used for season two.

The three discs are subdivided relating to their content: " Brawlers " features Waits's more upbeat rock and blues songs ; " Bawlers ", his ballads and love songs ; and " Bastards ", songs that fit in neither category, including a number of spoken-word tracks.

Five different versions of Waits's song " Way Down in the Hole " have been used as the opening theme songs for the HBO television show The Wire.

Waits undertook legal action, and a Spanish court recognized that there had been a violation of Waits's moral rights in addition to the infringement of copyright.

It can also be noted that Sulphur Springs is the hometown of Tom Waits's father.

Whereas the earlier cases turned rather narrowly upon the availability of adequate state remedies, the new emphasis is upon the nature of the state policy at issue.

Max Gluckman, together with many of his colleagues at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and students at Manchester University, collectively known as the Manchester School, took BSA in new directions through their introduction of explicitly Marxist-informed theory, their emphasis on conflicts and conflict resolution, and their attention to the ways in which individuals negotiate and make use of the social structural possibilities.

The rationalist philosophers, however, with a new emphasis on Reason as a tool of the intellect, brought the classical and medieval traditions under new scrutiny, exercising a new concept of doubt, with varying outcomes.

Foremost among the new doubters were the empiricists, the advocates of scientific method, with its emphasis on experimentation and reliance on evidence gathered from sensory experience.

Bernard would expand upon Anselm of Canterbury's role in transmuting the sacramentally ritual Christianity of the Early Middle Ages into a new, more personally held faith, with the life of Christ as a model and a new emphasis on the Virgin Mary.

: Of, pertaining to, or characterized by ( an experience of ) new birth in Christ or spiritual renewal ; of a Christian: placing special emphasis on this experience as a basis for all one's actions, evangelical.

While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.

As the law of corporations was articulated by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, over the first several decades of the new American state, emphasis fell, in a way which seems natural to us today, upon commercial corporations.

Following the experience of the South African War of 1899-1902 ( where mounted Boer citizen commandos fighting on foot from cover proved superior to regular cavalry ) the British Army withdrew lances for all but ceremonial purposes and placed a new emphasis on training for dismounted action.

The real change in the past two years has been a new interest and emphasis on the use of IRS in general — with DDT or any other insecticide — as an effective malaria prevention strategy in tropical Africa.

After a break in Philadelphia, where Bowie recorded new material, the tour resumed with a new emphasis on soul.

The Four Noble Truths are presented within new contexts, and sometimes given a different emphasis and importance.

A strong emphasis on experimentation and empiricism led to new results and new observations, which were contrasted and combined with those of Galen by writers such as Rhazes, Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi ( Haly Abbas ), Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulasis ), Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Zuhr and Ibn al-Nafis.

The emphasis on the Immanent Divine presence in everything gave new value to prayer and deeds of kindness, alongside Rabbinic supremacy of study, and replaced historical mystical ( kabbalistic ) and ethical ( musar ) asceticism and admonishment with optimism, encouragement, and daily fervour.

Their new style of psychology, later dubbed functional psychology, had a practical emphasis on action and application.

The objectives of coastal defence remained largely unchanged, but there was a new emphasis on development of the torpedo, which offered the possibility of relatively small ships successfully attacking much larger ones.

The army doubled in size and various reforms in composition resulted in a new emphasis on cavalry and smaller units instead of the legion as the main tactical unit.

Contemporary media studies includes the analysis of new media with emphasis on the internet, video games, mobile devices, interactive television, and other forms of mass media which developed from the 1990s.

For most mainstream country stations, the emphasis is generally on current pop country, following the same process as top 40 ; the remaining music in a particular station's library generally uses music from the past fifteen years ( shorter for " hot country " or " new country " stations ), with the exact music used varying depending on the station and the style of music the listener wants to hear.

Thought reform contains elements which are evident in Chinese culture ( emphasis on interpersonal sensitivity, learning by rote and self-cultivation ); in methods of extracting confessions well known in the Papal Inquisition ( 13th century ) and elaborated through the centuries, especially by the Russian secret police ; in methods of organizing corrective prisons, mental hospitals and other institutions for producing value change ; in methods used by religious sects, fraternal orders, political elites or primitive societies for converting or initiating new members.