What other musician, or song writer scratches your Tom Waits itch?

I know there is NOBODY in the world like Tom Waits, and won’t be again, not in my lifetime, but if Tom died tomorrow, I would find some small solace in the last album of Mark Kozelek, entitled “All the Best Issac Hays”. I hesitate to recommend it here because people will point out, correctly, that Kozelek is nothing like Tom Waits, but Kozelek’s book on payphones is just the sort of Quixotic enterprise that tickles my Waits funny bone. Or maybe his 2019 song “Parakeet Prison”, or maybe the 2013 songs, “You Missed My Heart” or “Gustavo”.

I would LOVE to hear what others are listening to when they would like to listen to a new Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan album, because let’s not forget that Brennan deserves half the credit.