Tom Waits: A Cluttered Harmony
Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 September 2004
THE LITTLE AMSTERDAM sits incongruously in the rolling expanse of Sonoma County farmland, a low white building adorned with a Dutch windmill - a "fake" windmill, Tom Waits' assistant has specified in her directions.
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