Required Listening: Hold On, by Tom Waits

Regular readers know of my love for the music of Tom Waits, and I felt that another of his songs was due for viewers of this site. 1999's Hold On From the album "Mule Variations" brought Tom Waits to a broader listener base, as the song was not quite as quirky and industrially experimental sounding as much of Waits's other work.

His voice is still somewhat gravelly, the video still somewhat avant garde, but the song is mellow and very listenable; the imagery conjured by the lyrics very iconic, and the song is very good. Simple and straight-forward. Enjoy.