Title: the wrong author for the job
Product review: Mr. Humphries is a big fan of Tom Waits. Unfortunately, he's mainly a fond of the early Tom, and spends a great deal of this book trying to explain why Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and everything that followed don't live up to Small Change. Tom deserves to have a biography written about him that does justice to his mid-eighties and later work as a period of astonishing innovation and creativity, rather than seeming almost apologetic that he dared to stray from the bars and back alleys of his early work at all.
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