About Ray Padgett
About Every Tom Waits Song (aka What’s He Building in There? )
Every Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter that — as you might have guessed from the title — explores Every Tom Waits Song. (My other newsletter, about Bob Dylan, I titled Flagging Down the Double E’s, so I decided to go a little more literal this time). If you subscribe, every Sunday morning a short essay about another Tom Waits song will land in your inbox.
I’ll be going through the Waits catalog alphabetically rather than chronologically. It seemed more fun to jump around eras rather than having to wait a year or more to even get to, say, Swordfishtrombones.