Step Right Up: The favorite Tom Waits songs of tons of local and national music figures
We're just nine days away from Tom Waits's appearance in Houston, and I've got to say I've been pretty much obsessed all this week. One manifestation: I asked about 100 a simple two-part question: What is your favorite Tom Waits song, and why? Here are the results, along with a mess of videos.... I'll start. My short-list would include "Step Right Up," "Tom Traubert's Blues," "Fannin Street," "I Wish I Was in New Orleans," "What's He [...]








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