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• Originally released in 1992 on Island Records, Bone Machine is Tom Waits 11th studio album. 5 years after Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine is a return to studio albums for Tom Waits. The album features David Hidalgo, Les Claypool, Brain and Keith Richards and won a GRAMMY for Best Alternative Music Album.

  Bone Machine is rather pointedly otherworldly another edge pusher his most poetically and sonically daring work yet. Writing again with his longtime collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan, Waits acknowledges writing darker material saying A great many songs live there, so thats where Ive been digging lately.

  Waits calls the songs on Bone Machine little movies for the ears. He sometimes wrote them entirely from a percussion patternwhich he played on array of largely homemade instruments. One, the conundrum, was rusted