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 ...
On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, the Band held a farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan ...
He sang three songs with Elton John at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was payback for a bet in which Elton John had made Lennon promise they’d perform together if “Whatever Gets You Thru the ...