From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre / Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known.

The same year, Waits made a foray into producing music for other artists, teaming up with his old friend Chuck E. Weiss to coproduce ( with his wife, Kathleen Brennan ) Extremely Cool, as well as appearing on the record as a guest vocalist and guitarist.

At this time, Waits made a return to acting after a five-year break, marked at first by the re-release of his 1993 Jim Jarmusch-directed short Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, costarring Iggy Pop, compiled in Coffee and Cigarettes.

On January 22, 2008, Waits made a rare live appearance in Los Angeles, performing at a benefit for Bet Tzedek Legal Services — The House of Justice, a nonprofit poverty law center.

Waits made an appearance on the album The Spirit of Apollo by alternative hip hop project N. A. S. A., on the track " Spacious Thoughts.

In 1984, Powell made his U. S. film debut in What Waits Below ( as known as Secrets of the Phantom Caverns ).

The work also includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith ; Tom Waits wrote the title track.

Throughout the remainder of the 1980s, Quine made scattered appearances as a session player on records by Tom Waits, John Zorn, Marianne Faithfull and Scritti Politti.

Contributions were made by Tom Waits, Peter Buck, John Sebastian ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ), and Butch.

" Rolling Stone said that the album " contains the most blues of any album Waits has made " but added " the problem is that it's more of the same ", describing it as " the latest installment of discourse ," awarding the album three out of five stars.

* Coyote Waits ( 1990 ) ISBN 0-06-109932-5, made into a PBS American Mystery!

* Coyote Waits ( 1990 ) made into a Mystery movie by PBS

O ' Hara has also made several small film appearances, most notably with Tom Waits in Candy Mountain ( 1986 ).

* The Waits Website ( designed to accumulate and disseminate historical information on Waits, and to advertise the growing number of revival bands, as well as their equivalents throughout Europe ).

The album, which was produced and arranged by former Lovin ' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, received positive reviews, but Waits did not gain widespread attention until a number of the album's tracks were covered by more prominent artists.

Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.

The play opened at the Los Angeles Theater Center in February 1989 to mixed reviews, although Waits ' performance was singled out by a number of critics, including John C. Mahoney, who described it as " mesmerizing.

The following year, Waits was extremely busy working on movie soundtracks, acting, and contributing to a number of music projects by other artists.

While Waits has played the song live a number of times, an official version would not be released until 2007.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

A number of musicians, including Tom Waits, Carla Kihlstedt, Thomas Newman, Bat For Lashes, A Hawk and A Hacksaw and Eric Gorfain continue to use the Stroh violin for its distinctive sound.

Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977, including a performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking " on cult BBC2 television music show the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1976.

His television roles have included playing " Uncle Ray " on Walker, Texas Ranger, " One Who Waits " on Northern Exposure, and multiple appearances as " Albert Hosteen " on The X-Files.

Three of the Hillerman novels ( Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and A Thief of Time ) were adapted for television as part of the PBS series Mystery !, in its American Mystery!

Three of the Hillerman novels ( Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and A Thief of Time ) were adapted for television as part of the PBS series Mystery !, as part of its American Mystery!

" In 1988, Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife.

Waits was awarded the key to the city of El Paso, Texas during a concert on June 20, 2008.

Waits himself described the song's subject during a concert in Sydney Australia in March 1979: " Uh, well I met this girl named Matilda.

True Love Waits received 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone magazine, allegedly the only " classical " recording to do so, while his Radiohead concert programs have received generally favorable notices from classical critics and promotion on NPR's Performance Today.

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" Waits finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train ; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornhelm's Cold Feet ; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale.

All of the material included was written specifically for the album with the exception of " Time Waits ," a song which John Bell had performed in solo appearances, and " Don't Wanna Lose You ," a song John Hermann had performed with his side-project Smiling Assassins.

Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs concerts often featured guest appearances by such artists as Tom Waits, David Lee Roth, Stevie Ray Vaughan, members of X, The Blasters, The Gun Club, The Circle Jerks, The Plugz, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and many more.

This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

This was the first of several collaborations between Waits and the group ; Frontman Les Claypool would appear on several subsequent Waits releases.

Waits between admission to the Order and installation may be very long ; for instance, Marshal of the Air Force Lord Craig of Radley was created a Knight Grand Cross in 1984, but was not installed until 2006.

After moving to New York City, Jones spent the majority of 1981 working on a follow-up album, written and recorded partly in reaction to the break-up of her relationship with Tom Waits sometime between late 1979 and early 1980.

Their concerts were riotous affairs including altercations with celebrities, such as one between singer Tom Waits and drummer Nicky Beat at The Troubadour.

Tom Waits described it to Rolling Stone in 1986 as " somewhere between the Elks Club and the Academy Awards ", and claimed to have met Jarmusch at an annual meeting of the New York chapter.

In November 2006, Waits appeared on The Daily Show and performed " The Day After Tomorrow.

In 2006, Enigk reignited his solo career by recording and releasing the LP World Waits on his own label, Lewis Hollow Records.

" In an interview on NPR's World Cafe, aired December 15, 2006, Waits stated that Tom Traubert was a " friend of a friend " who died in prison.

* 2006 Tom Waits ( album: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards )

In the summer of 2006, Robillard accompanied Tom Waits on a tour of the Southern United States.

Although Robillard did not record with Waits, the 2006 dates were widely bootlegged.