Tom Waits At any rate, here are a few of the things Tom Waits digs about the Lone Star State. He seems to have amended that to a boycott of Austin only, as in addition to Sunday's sold-out Houston show, El Paso(!) and Dallas are also on the Glitter and Doom Tour.īut not Austin. This Houston show will be only his second in Texas since 1999, when the vicious beating of one of his friends by bouncers at Austin's La Zona Rosa caused Waits to declare a permanent boycott of the state. To paraphrase Lyle Lovett, he may not be from Texas but he loves Texas anyway. This Tex-o-philia is apparent after even a cursory reading of the multitude of interviews anthologized online at the Tom Waits library, especially in the 'Childhood' and 'Influences' categories. It's in his blood his father Jesse Frank Waits was from the northeast Texas town of Sulphur Springs. Although he was raised in and around Los Angeles and San Diego, few musicians have as much love for the music of the Lone Star State as Tom Waits.
