Roll up, roll up, for the latest in Uncut's deluxe Ultimate Music Guides. This time, our subject is none other than Tom Waits - radical beatnik, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the past 50 years, and a true American original.
Once again, we've gone deep into the archives of NME, Melody Maker and Uncut to fish out the wildest and most surreal interviews with Waits, a man whose stories are every bit as good as his songs.
Plus there are deep essays on every single Waits album by Uncut’s crew of barflies and nighthawks, and fresh insights from his closest collaborators. Heard the one about Waits meeting Keith Richards while their wives shopped for bras?...