*DeadManWalking (1996) set @LouisianaStatePenitentiary featured *BruceSpringsteen *SteveEarle *SuzanneVega *PattiSmith *TomWaits *JohnnyCash *EddieVedder with *NusratFatehAliKhan *MichelleShocked *LyleLovett *MaryChapinCarpenter.

"Evelyn James they killed in a game" of who lives and who dies. From *DeadManWalking (1996) about two kids @NewOrleans Fall of Troy *TomWaits co-written by *KathleenBrennan

*TomWaits hobo's lullaby 'On the Nickel' was recorded for the Ralph Waite film On the Nickel and also appears on his 1980 album Heartattack and Vine. According to Tom Waits, all the winos refer to downtown LA on 5th street *skidrow as @theNickel

*TomWaits Asylum Years (1984) @EmpireDiner *NewYorkAlbumCovers IN 1986, *HarryConnickJr. played his first gig in New York for $25 and dinner. He played once a week.

Sep 30 1989 *BetteMidler v @Ford who hired her background singer *UlaHedwig seen in *DivineMadness (1980) to impersonate her singing Do You Want To Dance (1972) in 1985 to sell *Mercury *Sable Won $400,000 *TomWaits did same 1988 vs *FritoLay *Levis