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What do you think Tom Waits would’ve sounded like had he never met Kathleen Brennan on the set of Francis Ford Copolla’s One From The Heart?

Do you think he still would have been creating classic barstool singer-songwriter fare similar to his acclaimed work on Asylum Records in the 70s? Or do you believe he would have gone underground into the realm of experimentation regardless?

“A remarkable collaborator, and she’s a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that,” Waits once said of his bride, who introduced him to the music of Captain Beefheart among other things. “She can fix the truck. Expert on the African violet and all that. She’s outta this world. I don’t know what to say. I’m a lucky man. She has a remarkable imagination. And that’s the nation where I live. She’s bold, inventive and fearless. That’s who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.”

Since their wedding, Brennan has collaborated with Waits on every album he’s done since his Island Records debut Swordfishtrombones, released 40 years ago today. And while the couple have no doubt ventured further and further down the rabbit hole of avant-garde expressionism on later albums like Rain Dogs, Bone Machine and Mule Variations, the charm of Swordfishtrombones remains steadfast all these years later.