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Tom Waits: Bone Machine

Andy Gill, Q, October 1992

ON HIS EARLIEST albums, piano was the definitive Tom Waits instrument, its chords illuminated only by the dimmest of nightclub spotlights, filtered through a tumbler of redeye.

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