In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

* 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.

Around this time, Waits had a relationship with Rickie Lee Jones ( who appears on the sleeve art of the Blue Valentine album ).

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.

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.

Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits ' contributions, saying: Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract with PolyGram.

Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").

Among them: Trace, Steve Hackett, Third Eye Blind, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Jon Brion, Blur, Marco Benevento, Fiona Apple, Kraftwerk ( Orchestron ), Money Mark, Ani DiFranco, Michael Penn, Steve Fisk, Tom Waits, Nan Vernon, Hala Strana, TISM, The Real Tuesday Weld, and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo — who mixed in parts of the " Banjo Sing-Along " disc on a later remix of Devo's 1981 single, " Beautiful World.

* Lims-Kragma ( Zandros )( Khali-shi )-The Drawer of Nets, She who Waits ; the Mistress of Death ; Judger of Souls.

" 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.

The cover art features Waits sitting in a go-go dancer's dressing room, with a topless go-go dancer standing nearby who is rumored to be Cassandra Peterson who is famously known for her character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

One of his opening acts in these years was Tom Waits, who mentioned him in the song " Putnam County " from his album Nighthawks at the Diner with the lyric: " The radio's spitting out Charlie Rich ...

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

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

The genre-hopping " Tom Waits with a beatbox " style of Buck 65, who integrates country, rock, folk and blues influences into his music, has also become a major influence on Canadian hip hop in the 2000s.

After augmenting the lineup with bassist Gregory Page and drummer Jeff Aafedt, the group signed a contract with Bizarre / Planet Records in 1993 ( a label associated with Herb Cohen, who had earlier managed Tom Waits and Frank Zappa ).

Other performers who have recorded versions of " Young at Heart " include Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Shawn Colvin, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Vinton, Tom Waits, Bing Crosby, Barry Manilow, Landon Pigg and Vonda Shepard.

The album was hailed by critics and many declared it to be Cash's finest album since the late 1960s, while his versions of songs by more modern artists such as Tom Waits and Glenn Danzig ( who penned a song called " Thirteen " specifically for Cash, in just twenty minutes ) helped to bring him a new audience.

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.

Robillard was hired by Tom Waits, who was looking for a blues guitarist and a master of American roots music for his Orphans Tour.

Waits himself played the lead role.

" Waits himself was full of praise for the label, saying " Epitaph is rare for being owned and operated by musicians.

In the same year, Waits appeared as himself in Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy La Tigre e la Neve, set in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War.

In the movie, Waits appears in a dream scene as himself, singing the ballad " You Can Never Hold Back Spring " and accompanying himself at the piano.

Waits found himself in a situation similar to his earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use " Innocent When You Dream " ( from Franks Wild Years ) for a commercial broadcast in Spain.

It was the first album that Waits produced himself.

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

He also wrote two movie treatments for himself and MacDonald, Timothy Waits for Love and All Stars Don't Spangle.

Each season uses a different recording of it against a different opening sequence, with the theme being performed, in order, by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Waits himself, The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe and Steve Earle.

" Waits himself provided guitar work and backing vocals as well as producing the project.

In their live performances Claypool does both parts himself, but the version appearing on Sailing the Seas of Cheese singer Tom Waits provided the voice of Tommy the Cat.

" Morris wanted Tom Waits and Mickey Rourke to play the brothers, and he wrote the script, but the project eventually failed.

Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged as an Off-Broadway musical in 1986, directed by Gary Sinise, in a successful run at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater.

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.

T-girl – taboo – taboo breaking – talisman – talking dirty – Tamakeri – Tamil marriage customs – tampon – Tanner stage – Tantra – Tantric massage – tantric sex – Taoist sexual practices – taphephilia – tart card – tattooing – tea room – teabagging – tearoom – teasing ( sexology ) – technical virginity – teenage fatherhood – teenage pregnancy – teledildonics – telegony – teleiophilia – telekura – telephone scatologia – telephone scatophilia – telephone sex – telephonicophilia – tellak – temple prostitute – temporal lobe trauma – temporary marriage – teratophilia – termination of pregnancy – territorial marking – terror play – testes – testicle – testicular cancer – testicular feminization – testicular torsion – testicular-feminizing syndrome – testis – testosterone – text picture-thalpotentiginy – theca externa – theca folliculi – theca interna – thecoma – thelarche – third sex – third-sexer – thong underwear – three letters and six etiquettes – three-legged bloomers – threesome – threshold ( disambiguation ) – thrush ( infection ) – tickling – tie and tease – tightlacing – tit wank – titty fuck – tomboy – tongzhi ( sexuality ) – top ( BDSM ) – top ( sex ) – topping – torture ( sexology ) – tossed salad – total enclosure fetishism – toucherism – tourniquet – toxic shock syndrome – tracheal shave – traditional marriage – trampling – tranny – tranny chaser – transactional sex – transactional sexual relationship – transexualism – transgender – transition nuclear protein – transitioning ( transgender ) – transman – transscrotal piercing – transsexual – transsexualism – transurethral needle ablation of the prostate – transurethral resection of the prostate – transvestic fetishism – transvestism – transvestite – transvestitism – transvestophilia – transwoman – traumatic masturbatory syndrome – Treponema pallidum – trial marriage – trial separation – triangle piercing – triangular theory of love – tribadism – Trichomonas vaginalis – Trichomoniasis – trichophilia – triple cock cage – triple cock ring – triple penetration – triple-X syndrome – tripsolagnia – troilism – Trokosi – trophy wife – troubadour – true hermaphroditism – True Love Waits – tubal ligation – tubal reversal – tubal sterilization – tubuli seminiferi recti – TUNA – tunica albuginea ( disambiguation ) – tunica albuginea ( ovaries ) – tunica albuginea ( penis ) – tunica albuginea ( testicles ) – tunica vaginalis – tunica vasculosa testis – Tuppy Owens – turn-off – turn-on – Turner's syndrome – TURPS – twins – two type theory of transsexuality – two-spirit –

Peacock was the last of the Newcastle Waits ( musical watchmen ), and probably the first smallpiper to play a keyed chanter.

The adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had previously worked with on the play The Black Rider, and originally set up at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1992.

The Black Rider is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs.

Waits recorded much of the music from the play in different arrangements under the eponymous title, The Black Rider.

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.

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.

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

Waits appears on most songs, playing guitar, piano, and / or offering backing vocals.

The same years, Waits appeared on Sparklehorse's album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, playing piano on the track " Morning Hollow.

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.

The instrumental " Calliope ", on Tom Waits ' album Blood Money, features a toy piano, as well as the calliope of the title.

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.

The music for the most part consists of Waits ' hoarse, rough voice, set against a backdrop of piano, upright bass, drums and saxophone.

Album closer " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" has a simple musical arrangement, boasting only Waits ' voice and piano.

#* Tom Waits – piano, banjo, vocal

#* Tom Waits – vocal, piano

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.