NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Tom Waits on 16 July 2018. Tom Waits has been played over 130 times on NTS, first on 31 July 2013. Tom Waits's music has been featured on 111 episodes.

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared…