When Tom Waits came onto the music scene in the early 1970s, he as a golden-voiced, handsome piano player crooner who wrote poetic songs that mixed lyrics and style like a bartender mixes spirits and ...
One could argue that Joni Mitchell’s Olympian period ends with the first disc in this box, as she, in her own words, moved from the hit department to the art department. Hejira (1976) is her last ...