Time waits for no man, but Tom Waits for everyone! The greatest songwriter of his generation and one of the greatest of all storytellers, endlessly evoking desolate landscapes, dustbowl desperation and carnivalesque caricatures that speak to the complexities of the human condition through the combination of words and music. His work is intensely 'cinematic' even without the necessary image track. He can conjure an image more vivid - more real - than any major filmmaker with just the sound of an old harmonium, a piano, an electric guitar or the carefully arranged horns of a Salvation Army band.