Of the many great musicians and poets to issue forth from the golden age of rock, perhaps none is more singularly self-possessed than Tom Waits, whose lyrical genius and mercurially guttural style made him intensely influential amongst his peers and the many generations who have followed. His track Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis tells the somber, bittersweet tale of a woman beaten down by life, circumstance, and addiction, caught up in reminiscence and the fantasy of what might have been. We never learn her ultimate fate and are instead given only a small window into her life and the fact that she's imprisoned for the crime of selling her body to raise money to live and to feed her terrible habit.
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