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How many recording artists are truly original? How many have forged a sound that is unmistakeably their own? Not many, that's for sure. Maybe a handful.
Since Swordfish Trombones, Waits has plowed some pretty strange and beautiful soil, and I 'm not sure anyone had really ever been to that place before. Cranky, oblivious to fashion, and ready to do whatever it takes (like recording albums using guitars with five year-old strings) to get his singular vision across, there's really no one else like him.
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