Thursday music corner: Thomas Alan Waits, better known as Tom, was born in California in 1949 and has been releasing brooding, off-kilter music for 50 years. His ninth studio album, 1985's Rain Dogs, was his first to achieve Gold status in the US, and features Singapore as its opening track. The album features his first collaboration with guitarist Marc Ribot, and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards appears on three of its 19 tracks. Buried on Side 2 of the same album is the classic Downtown Train, which was the album's third single.
Waits has also had a busy acting career alongside his music, appearing in such films as Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986), Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992), Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), the Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021). Waits was nominated for an Oscar for his song score for Coppola's 1982 drama One From The Heart, but lost out to Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse's work for Victor/Victoria.
Tom Waits - Singapore (1985)
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