Tom Waits: The '70s

Long before Tom Waits adopted his hobo-in-a-junkyard persona on 1983's Swordfishtrombones, he had developed a devoted cult following. Waits' early albums presented the singer/songwriter as a piano-playing beatnik with a heart of gold underneath his scabrous wit. This selection of tracks from Waits' '70s albums shows us where he began.