Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits
Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI8oV5mYkU
