Tom Waits for No Man

Tom Waits depicted the poor, the punks, the hobos and the lost. He could also write a love song to shatter Cupid's bow. Stewart D'Arrietta covers this terrain of tenderness to terror and all the pathos in between. He has a long relationship with the music, and an affinity deeper than most having developed the hit show over two decades. His characteristic gravel-voiced sensitivity brings out the shapes and shades of legendary songs such as Invitation to the Blues, Martha, and the wrenching Tom Traubert's Blues.