Profane Profundities of the Proletarian Preacher
"Swordfishtrombones" (1983), by Tom Waits
Lemme pull on your coat about something…
My old friend, Chris Bailey (it was always Chris Bailey) introduced me to Tom Waits on one of our late-night weekend drives around the city of Phoenix. We were the kind of guys who generally wanted to stay out of trouble, and our favorite pastime was probably digging through stacks of used records. We weren’t abov…
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