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With Morbidity On His Mind, Tom Waits Makes A Double Play

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, May 2002

Tom Waits — the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter and occasional actor and playwright — has released 14 albums in nearly 30 years. But he has a habit of taking his sweet time between efforts, to the consternation of his rather large and rabid cult audience.

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