Hall Full Of Smoke Is Stained With Coffee

2011 is the year that Tom Waits becomes an inductee into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Congrats Tom, its been a long time coming. Old 55 is one of my favorite Waits songs, written so beautifully and the gravel in his voice sounds so perfectly mixed with the beauty of the song. Any song where Tom is playing piano is a killer, hes the perfect barroom/coffee shop piano player, singing of lost souls and hard times. Drinking your sorrows away chasing it with a cigarette. Its the way that Tom lived and the way he wrote about.