* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

While Waits had before played either piano or guitar, he now gravitated towards less common instruments, saying, " Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been.

Waits himself played the lead role.

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

Waits also played in the Bridge School Benefit on October 27 – 28, 2007 with Kronos Quartet.

In 2004 and 2005, she played the Devil in William Burroughs ' and Tom Waits ' musical, The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson, which opened at London's Barbican Theatre, toured to San Francisco, but from which she was forced to withdraw prior to performances at the Sydney Festival, owing to exhaustion.

Copeland has occasionally played drums for other artists including Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tom Waits.

Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Odetta, Dave Van Ronk, John Herald, Garland Jeffreys, Sylvia Tyson, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Elliott Murphy and Country Joe were some of the musicians that played there.

In 2008, Paz co-wrote the Ashes Divide song " Denial Waits ", and she played violin on Jenny Lewis ' second studio album Acid Tongue.

The European Piffari, Stadtpfeifer and Waits were multi-instrumentalists, who played trumpet, sackbut, shawm, cornett, recorder and string-instruments.

The title character played by Keira Knightley is later described as the Angel of Fire by their rescuer, played by Tom Waits.

The group played a selection of blues songs, including songs of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, and Gov't Mule standards.

Edwards played live with and appeared on albums of Tom Waits.

He toured with him on the Heart Attack and Vine tour and played to a packed Victoria Apollo in London with Waits and a bassist ( the drummer had apparently been left behind after some dispute ).

Weiss released the album Extremely Cool in 1999, featuring extensive collaboration with Tony Gilkyson and Tom Waits, who co-produced the album for his longtime acquaintance ( they met in 1974 at Ebbett's Field, where Weiss played in the house band ) and appears on at least two tracks.

In 1978, Waits also appeared in his first film role, in Paradise Alley as Mumbles the pianist, and contributed the original compositions "( Meet Me in ) Paradise Alley " and " Annie's Back in Town " to the film's soundtrack.

During this period, Waits appeared in a series of minor movie roles, including a cameo role in Wolfen ( 1981 ) as an inebriated piano player, and his song " Jitterbug Boy " also appeared on the movie's soundtrack.

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.

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.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

In 1989, Waits appeared in his final theatrical stage role to date, appearing as Curly in Thomas Babe's Demon Wine, alongside Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Carol Kane, and Bud Cort.

" 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.

In late 2009, Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was released, with Waits in the role of Mr. Nick.

The same year, he began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Waits to provide music for his film One from the Heart.

For Coppola's film, Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler ; she was unavailable due to prior engagements, however.

The only collection of exclusively Waits-performed material of 1991 appeared when Waits composed and conducted the almost exclusively instrumental music for Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth, which was released as an album the following year.

1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2005, Waits appeared in the Tony Scott film Domino as a soothsayer.

Captain Hook is a minor character in the film Shrek 2, playing " a little drop of poison " by Tom Waits on the piano in the " Poisoned Apple " tavern.

Singer Tom Waits claimed he cried upon viewing it and Eddie Van Halen has said that when he first saw the film, everyone else in the room with him laughed as he failed to see the humor in the film.

He co-starred as " Slick Sam " Nakai with Adam Beach and Wes Studi in the film A Thief of Time ( 2004 ) and Coyote Waits, both adapted from Tony Hillerman novels of the same names and produced by Robert Redford.

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

*" Someone Waits for You " for the film Swing Shift ( 1984 )

* " Little Boy Blue " is also the name of a song written by Tom Waits and sung by Nastassja Kinski in the film One from the Heart directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1982.

In fact, even after the break up, Francis Ford Coppola asked Rickie Lee to collaborate with Mr. Waits on the upcoming film, One from the Heart, but she balked, citing the recent breakup.

Tom Waits is apparently a fan of the film, as he expressed in a recent feature in Mojo Magazine.

* Night on Earth ( soundtrack ), the soundtrack album from the Jarmusch film, written by Tom Waits.

" Earth Died Screaming " is featured in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys, while " Jesus Gonna Be Here " is featured in the 2005 film Domino, in which Waits appears.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula suggests that Renfield ( portrayed by Tom Waits ) was Harker's predecessor as Count Dracula's agent in London ; it is implied that this is the reason for his present madness.

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

He is best known for his roles as Victor in Smoke Signals, Tommy in Walker, Texas Ranger, Kickin ' Wing in Joe Dirt, Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers, Private Ben Yazzie in Windtalkers, Dr. Charles Eastman ( Ohiyesa ) in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Officer Jim Chee in the film adaptations of Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and A Thief of Time.