Tom Waits live in concert.
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Tom Waits

18
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

81
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Based on 
18
critic concert
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Tom Waits is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 18 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Tom Waits is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Tom Waits concert reviews describe live shows and performances as accessible.

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Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Pomona, United States (12/7/1949)
Bio
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars.
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Critic Concert Reviews

Hot Press Magazine (Ireland)

August 15, 2008
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His body is the medium for that voice, which causes him to shudder and shake, as though frustrated by the limits of his corporeal prison.

The Guardian (UK)

August 2, 2008
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The hatter's grand bawl

musicOMH (UK)

August 1, 2008
100
%
The striped fabric of the tent – dubbed The Ratcellar – loomed large over Dublin’s Phoenix Park on the last night of his three-day stint in Ireland.

Dallas Observer (USA)

June 24, 2008
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It was hot as balls, there was no opening act, the crowd was filled with braying jackasses and a single ticket cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

Houston Press (USA)

June 24, 2008
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Aftermath: Tom Waits at Jones Hall

Grateful Web (USA)

August 19, 2006
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Tom Waits Live In Concert In the USA

The Guardian (UK)

November 24, 2004
100
%
After all it had been 17 years since he last performed here a period during which he has become perhaps the most improbable late-flowering commercial success in recent rock history.

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