CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I -- Closing Time (1973) -- September 21, 1973 - Interview with Tom Waits Interviewer: Howard Larman, FolkScene, KPFK -- January 13, 1974 - "From Bouncing to Hooting to Playing the Road" Interviewer: Lou Curtiss and Stephen Swain, San Diego Reader -- February 18, 1974 - "Tom Waits: Saturday Night Seeker" Interviewer: Kenny Weissberg, Colorado Daily -- July 23, 1974 - Interview with Tom Waits Interviewer: Howard Larman, FolkScene, KPFK -- The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) -- October 1974 - The Heart of Saturday Night Press Release by Tom Waits -- January 12, 1975 - Interview with Tom Waits Interviewer: Howard and Roz Larman, FolkScene, KPFK -- January 17, 1975 - "Tom Waits: Los Angeles is Poetry" Interviewer: Marco Barla, LA Free Press -- June 21, 1975 - 'Waits: The Beats Go On..." Interviewer: Jeff Burger, Melody Maker -- Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) -- October 17-23, 1975 - "Tom Waits: In Close Touch with the Streets" Interviewer: Todd Everett, Los Angeles Free Press -- June 11, 1976 - "Play It Again Tom" Interviewer: Robert Ward, Syracuse New Times -- Small Change (1976) -- December 23-29, 1976 - "Tom Waits for No One?" Interviewer: Jim Gerard, Northeastern Ohio Scene -- December 30, 1976 - "The Ramblin' Street Life Is the Good Life for Tom Waits" Interviewer: Rich Trenbeth, Country Rambler -- Foreign Affairs (1977) -- November 1977 - "After a One-Night Stand" Interviewer: Bart Bull, Phoenix New Times -- November 13, 1977 - "A Rumor in My Spare Time" Interviewer: Pete Oppel, Dallas Morning News -- Blue Valentine (1978) -- December 2, 1978 - "Poet and Person Merge into Paradox: Tom Waits Is Tired of the Life That Has Made His Songs Unique" Interviewer: Pete Oppel, Dallas Morning News -- December 12, 1978 - "Waits Bringing New Band, Same Old Clothes" Interviewer: Charley Delisle, Santa Barbara News and Review.

January 23, 1979 - "Tom Waits for No One" Interviewer: Stan Soocher, Circus Weekly -- Heartattack and Vine (1980) -- September 4, 1980 - Elektra Records Promo Interview Interviewer: Stephen K. Peeples -- One from the Heart (1982) -- July 1-7, 1983 - "A Simple Love Story" Interviewer: Peter Guttridge, City Limits -- PART II -- Swordfishtrombones (1983) -- Late 1985 - "A Conversation with Tom Waits" Swordfishtrombones Promo, Island Records -- September 1983 - "Skid Romeo" Interviewer: Robert Elms, Face -- Rain Dogs (1985) -- Late Summer 1985 - "The Sultan of Sleaze" Interviewer: Pete Silverton, You -- Late Summer 1985 - "Waits Happening" Interviewer: Pete Silverton, Beat -- Late 1985 - Rain Dogs Tourbook by Tom Waits -- Late 1985 - Interview with Tom Waits Interviewer: Michael Tearson, CBC Stereo -- Franks Wild Years (1987) -- September 1987 - "Boho Blues" Interviewer: Bart Bull, Spin -- October 1987 - "Better Waits Than Ever" Interviewer: Bill Forman, Music & Sound Output -- Big Time (1988) -- PART III -- Bone Machine (1992) -- July 1992 - "The Lie in Waits" Interviewer: Pete Silverton, Observer -- September 1922 - "Composer, Musician, Performer, Actor: Tom Waits Is a Renaissance Man Whose Musique Noir Captures the Sound of the Dark Age" Interviewer: Derk Richardson, Pulse -- October 12, 1992 - "Interview with Tom Waits" Interviewer: Chris Douridas, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW -- The Black Rider (1993) -- Mule Variations (1999) -- April 10, 1999 - "Hobo Sapiens" Interviewer: Mick Brown, Telegraph Magazine -- April 22-29, 1999 - "Tom Waits for No Man" Interviewer: Brett Martin, Time Out New York -- April 22-28, 1999 - "Wily Tom Waits's Barnyard Breakthrough" Interviewer: Tim Perlich, Now -- May 1999 - "Interview with Tom Waits" Interviewer: Gabriella, NY Rock -- June/July 1999 - "The Man Who Howled Wolf" Interviewer: Jonathan Valania, Magnet.

October 13, 1999 - Interview with Tom Waits Interviewer: Bret Saunders, Studio C, KBCO -- July/August 2000 - "Tradition with a Twist" Interviewer: Bret Kofford, Blues Revue -- Alice, Blood Money (2002) -- April 10, 2002 - "Grimm's Reapers" Interviewer: Terry Gilliam, BlackBook -- May 2002 - "Tom Waits" Interviewer: Russell Bongard, Big Brother -- May 29, 2002 - "Tom Waits" Interviewer: Keith Phipps, A .V . Club -- June 2, 2002 - "The Hobo Comes Home" Interviewer: Iain Shedden, The Australian -- June 13, 2002 - "We're All Mad Here" Interviewer: Robert Lloyd, ANTI- Electronic Press Kit -- September 2004 - "One Wild Ride" Interviewer: Pamela Feinsilber, San Francisco Magazine -- Real Gone (2004) -- August or September 2004 - "It's Last Call Somewhere in the World" Interviewer: Jonathan Valania, Magnet -- September 2004 - "The Mojo Interview: Tom Waits Speaks" Interviewer: Sylvie Simmons, Mojo -- December 2004 - "Tom Waits: Dancing in the Dark" Interviewer: Tom Moon, Harp -- December 2004 - "All Stripped Down" Interviewer: Tom Lanham, Paste -- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) -- October 27, 2006 - "Tom Waits: Call and Response" Interviewer: Katherine Turman, Stop Smiling -- November 16, 2006 - "Tom Waits: Haunted Songster's Revelatory Dispatch from the Twilight Zone" Interviewer: Tim Perlich, Now -- November 27, 2006 - "Interview: Tom Walts" Interviewer: Amanda Petrusich, Pitchfork -- December 2006 - "My Wild Years and the Woman That Saved My Life" Interviewer: Mick Brown, Word -- May 20, 2008 - "True Confessions" Interviewer: Tom Waits, ANTI- Press Release -- Permissions -- Index.