Some artists have not featured previously on the FMS because I have found it difficult to pick one favourite track, as I have so many. Tom Waits is one of those artists.

Much like Lucinda Williams from back in May, his voice changed considerably over the years. Tom Waits is also an artist who defies categorisation. Not to mention the jazz, blues, folk, rock vaudeville & experimental music styles, he's been called a jazz troubadour, barfly, beat writer, 'old tomcat', nighthawk, possessing a boozy growl of a voice, like a lingering hangover and a true poet and storyteller of the rock and roll era. He's constantly changing hats and personalities.  

His second LP release in 1974 was called 'The Heart of Saturday Night'. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The video is just the LP cover plus the song's lyrics:

You're looking for the heart of Saturday night

The album ends with 'The Ghosts of Saturday Night' -  As he dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes and marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair 😏