of brick-clad steel-piling was put into place to protect the town, most noticeably at the Waits where a pleasing plaza has also been created.

In the past three, he put on Hamlet ( 2005 ; using Tom Waits music ); A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 2004 ; using Motown music ); and As You Like It ( 2003 ; using psychedelic rock music ).

They were a popular couple at the time ( Second City TV skits ...) and they moved in together, Waits leaving his Tropicana days, Jones coming off a world wide tour in which she was booked as ' the new voice of America ' in Germany, France and England.

Former Village Voice editor Robert Christgau gave the album an A – rating and praised Waits and Brennan's songwriting, saying " together they humanize the percussion-battered Bone Machine sound, reconstituting his ' 80s alienation effects into a Delta harshness with more give to it.

Indeed, in a 1998 radio interview, she confirmed that she met Waits and that they spent a night on the town together.

In 2004, UK producers Cultural Industry, Londons Barbican Arts Centre, American Conservatory Theater, and the Sydney Festival, Australia, teamed together with director Robert Wilson and Musician Tom Waits, to bring the world the English spoken version of The Black Rider.

Waits, looking back at the period, has said, I was sick through that whole period [...] It was starting to wear on me, all the touring.

On May 7, 2008, Waits announced the Glitter and Doom Tour starting in June 2008, touring cities in the southern United States and subsequently announced a series of dates in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.

Orleans found its core audience touring the clubs and college circuit of the northeastern United States, crossing paths with other up-and-comers such as Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits and Hall & Oates.

Waits, looking back at the period said: I was sick through that whole period [...] It was starting to wear on me, all the touring.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

The Ride featured artists such as Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, Bobby Womack and Elvis Costello covering Los Lobos music along with the band.

His working band during those last years featured reed players Billy Harper or Bennie Maupin, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummers Mickey Roker or Freddie Waits.

The backing band was the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death in 1977: Tom Waits on piano, James Burton on lead guitar, Jerry Scheff on bass, and Ronnie Tutt on drums.

True Love Waits: Christopher O ' Riley Plays Radiohead, his recording of his own piano arrangements of songs by the alternative rock band Radiohead, was released in 2003.

The street has also been mentioned in songs by Willie Nile, Jim Croce, Regina Spektor, Dire Straits, Bill Callahan, Saint Etienne the Vancouver Twee pop band cub, Sonic Youth, Two Gallants, Steve Earle, Beastie Boys, Paul McDermott, Billy Joel, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, The Clash, the Ramones, Jesse Malin and The Foetus All-Nude Revue, The Lumineers, Deerhunter, among others.

In the earliest days of the Rustic Overtones, the band was mostly classified as a rock and soul band, citing their heaviest influences as artists such as Earth, Wind, and Fire and Tom Waits, and playing with a raw sound.

Jamie Hooper eventually quit the band permanently in late 2008 and did not perform on Here Waits Thy Doom, making it the first album from the band not to feature any original members.

True Love Waits: Christopher O ' Riley Plays Radiohead is the first tribute album by classical pianist Christopher O ' Riley of songs by the experimental rock band Radiohead.

Hold Me to This: Christopher O ' Riley Plays Radiohead is the second tribute album by classical pianist Christopher O ' Riley of songs by the rock band Radiohead, the first being True Love Waits.

The band formed in 1986 and named themselves after an instrumental track by Tom Waits.

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.

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.

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 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.

Later in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained a cover version of Waits ' song " Martha " from Closing Time, the first-ever cover of a Tom Waits song by a known artist.

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.

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

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.

In 1987, he released Franks Wild Years ( subtitled " Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts "), which included studio versions from Waits ' play of the same name.

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

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's " It's All Right with Me " to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business — which sold over a million copies worldwide.

First, Waits appeared on the Primus album Sailing the Seas of Cheese as the voice of " Tommy the Cat ", which exposed him to a new audience in alternative rock.

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.

In July 1991, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins released the album Black Music for White People, which features covers of two Waits compositions: " Heartattack & Vine " ( which later that year was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits ' permission, resulting in a lawsuit ) and " Ice Cream Man ".

Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

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.

" Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes (" Town with No Cheer ") and marimba (" Shore Leave ") to Waits ' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion ( sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch ), horn sections ( often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music ), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments ( many of Waits ' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin ).

The stark record featured a great deal of percussion and guitar ( with little piano or sax ), marking another change in Waits ' sound.

On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.

Waits declined, but the commercial ultimately featured music very similar to that song.

Along with Davies, the series has featured a widely diverse list of artists, including Culture Club, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Kanye West, Tom Waits, and Def Leppard.

Ribot's earliest session work was featured on Tom Waits ' Rain Dogs ( 1985 ) and helped define Waits ' new musical direction.

The album featured famed drummer Shelly Manne, and was, like Waits ' previous albums, heavily jazz-influenced, with a lyrical style that owed influence to Raymond Chandler and Charles Bukowski as well as a vocal delivery influenced by Louis Armstrong, Dr John and Howlin ' Wolf.

" 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.

In 2001, Sparklehorse released It's a Wonderful Life, which featured contributions from Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Persson, Vic Chesnutt, and Dave Fridmann.

Lisa's " Chaperone " was selected for inclusion on the True Love Waits recording, which also featured selections from Michael W. Smith, DC Talk and Petra among others.

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.

The Blind Boys ' version of Tom Waits ' " Way Down in the Hole " featured on Spirit of the Century, also became the theme song for the first year of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, and their song " Soldier " was featured in the 2002 film The Fighting Temptations, featuring Beyonce and Cuba Gooding Jr.

The album featured an eclectic collection of guests including Tom Waits, Solomon Burke, Michael Franti, Chrissie Hynde, Aaron Neville, Shelby Lynne, George Clinton, Mavis Staples and Les McCann.

The album featured covers of songs by ABBA, Spandau Ballet, Tom Waits, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart, and other artists.