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  <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">7</fans-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding &quot;like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car.&quot; With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. Waits has also worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including &lt;I&gt;The Fisher King&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;I&gt;Bram Stoker's Dracula&lt;/I&gt;, and &lt;I&gt;Short Cuts&lt;/I&gt;. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on &lt;I&gt;One from the Heart&lt;/I&gt;.

Lyrically, Waits' songs are known for atmospheric portrayals of bizarre, seedy characters and places, although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters, despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists — for example &quot;Jersey Girl&quot; performed by Bruce Springsteen, &quot;Downtown Train&quot; performed by Rod Stewart, and &quot;Ol' '55&quot; performed by the Eagles. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards, and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.
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  <title><![CDATA[The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tom Waits: Beautiful Maladies]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.71</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tom Waits Anthology]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>6</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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        <book id="449920">
  <title><![CDATA[Tom Waits: Blood Money]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tom Waits: Alice]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Real Gone]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="6609313">
  <title><![CDATA[The Early Years]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Waits Anthology]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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        <book id="4532485">
  <title><![CDATA[True Confessions]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="3237619">
  <title><![CDATA[Bukowski Waits For Us, 1 Audio-CD]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tom Waits]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Michael Kiessling]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Karl-Heinz Heil]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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