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December 7: Tom Waits is 65 Happy Birthday

  [He's got a voice sounding] "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for…

10 years ago

May 7 in music history

The Rolling Stones: Paint It, Black (released 7 May 1966) (read more) The principal riff of “Paint It Black” (almost…

11 years ago

Today: The Rolling Stones released Paint It, Black in 1966 [US] – 47 years ago

Brian Jones plucked the haunting sitar melody at the 1966 L.A. session for this classic. Bill Wyman added klezmer-flavored organ;…

12 years ago

Today: Tom Waits is 63

[He's got a voice sounding] "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a…

12 years ago