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| | Tom Waits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | With this trademark growl, as well as his experimental tendencies and a love of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. |
 | | Foreign Affairs (1977) and Blue Valentine (1978) were in a similar vein, but showed further refinement of his artistic voice. |
 | | His songwriting shifted as well, becoming somewhat more abstract and embracing a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rhumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tangos, early country music and European folk music, as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output. |
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