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Tom Waits: A Seventies Storyteller With Fifties Beat Style

Mick Houghton, Time Out, 1976

"I WAS BORN at a very young age in the back seat of a yellow cab in Murphy Hospital parking lot. I had to pay a buck eighty five on the meter. I realised then you have to plan things out."

Total word count of piece: 619

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