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Topic: Tom Waits

Daniel Johnston and British Sea Power (Wiki Commons/ ILIL)

There's a star for Daniel Johnston

Ashlie D. Stevens
Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" (Netflix)

Tim Blake Nelson, Coen Brothers muse

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Bloomsbury Publishing/Salon)

Tom Waits' gothic, melodic freak show

David Smay
(Late Show With David Letterman)

Tom Waits' departing song

Colin Gorenstein
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Sylvie Simmons (Light In the Attic Records)

"A cowgirl, by way of London"

Lori Carson
Kylie Minogue in BBC Music's "God Only Knows" cover (BBC Music)

Must viral videos be so bad?

Tom Maxwell
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