Tom Waits: Closing Time

LP Record The seventies still shape Tom Waits's image to this day. Although the singer, songwriter, actor, and writer, born in 1949 in Pomona, California, has lived a relatively well-off, middle-class life for decades, he still holds a romantic reputation as a drifter, an eccentric, and a lover of alcohol. A blend of Charles Baudelaire and a young Charles Bukowski, he gives a grumpy voice to those in the gutter of high society. The starting point was Waits's debut album, "Closing Time", released in March 1973. The record was made the year before in just ten days with a studio band led by producer Jerry Yester.