Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Tom Waits

Strengths: awesome lyrical craftsman that's produced some amazing albums over the years. very organic production (listen to his percussion once in a while) and has an insane dearth of musical material. no real bad albums to his name, either.

Weaknesses: has a propensity for sounding like a cheeseball version of Springsteen when he plays his hand at ballads (having nearly ruined Rain Dogs with that crap). limited vocal range as well; his falsetto is pretty weak too.