Your Daily Tom Waits Voice Description

As you can see in the sidebar I'm reading a book about Tom Waits. It's a collection of magazine articles and interviews from every period of his career up to and including his last album, Real Gone. I've really enjoyed it so far and Tom Waits says some really crazy things to the journalists covering him. It got me thinking about reading Dylan's Chronicles Volume One and the strange things he had to say. Dylan's weird recollections were so charming (to me) that I kept track of the best examples and posted one per day last January. Well, Tom's ramblings to journalists are definitely fun but even more fun is to read the descriptions of his voice. So today I will start giving you a quick description of Tom Waits's voice that I have read in the book:

A theatrical voice, a cross between mellifluous baritone

and heavy-equipment breakdown