Steve Brosky could be called the voice of the Lehigh Valley, being a familiar presence here for decades.

And you could say Tom Waits personifies hipster Los Angeles.

Each singer-songwriter has written about the places and people they have known and their personal experiences.

“Steve Brosky Sings The Tom Waits Songbook,” 8 p.m. Feb. 19, Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem. The concert is sold out. A concert has been added, 7:30 p.m. March 31, Godfrey Daniels.

“Waits was the cool guy in Los Angeles,” says Brosky in a phone interview. “In the 1970s he lived in a room in a cheesy motel. People and the record industry didn’t know how to take him. And he reinvented himself a number of times over the years.

“He sang about people down on their luck, Skid Row types of characters. He lived it to a degree. He also has a wicked sense of humor.

“He has an early 1940s, Hollywood-style approach to his music. While everyone was into rock, he was listening to Frank Sinatra and big band music from his father’s record collection.”

Waits’ offbeat view is heard in songs like “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” and the satirical “Chocolate Jesus.” Others are “Old ’55,” covered by the Eagles, and “One in the Hole,” theme song for the HBO series “The Wire.”

Waits might be better known to some as an actor. He played Renfield in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” was in the Coen Brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” has been in many films by director Jim Jarmusch, including “The Dead Don’t Die,” and is in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza.”

Brosky says his own music is a mixture of Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, with a touch of Frank Zappa. He has played most of the Valley’s major venues, including opening for Weird Al Yankovic at Miller Symphony Hall. He also has opened for B.B. King, Leon Russell, Bo Diddley, Peter Noone, Commander Cody, Foghat, Melanie and the Beach Boys.

Brosky’s own take on the world is hinted at by the titles of his songs, such as “It’s Not the End of the World (But You Can See It From Here)” and “Still Ain’t Got a Tattoo,” the latter from his CD, “Still.” He also has written and performs thoughtful songs like “Grateful.”

Brosky and Waits each have original styles. “I’m different and I don’t care who knows it,” says Brosky. Both men are about the same age and both have well-worn, lived-in voices, Waits’ developed from years of chain-smoking.

“I was turned on to him in the 1970a after coming back from Vietnam,” says Brosky, who had a few difficult years after his military service. “I felt a deep connection with him.”

It’s Brosky’s second Tom Waits’ concert at Godfrey’s, with the previous one in 2018. There will be different musicians this time, with the exception of Gary Staples, returning on keyboards.

Brosky, who only sang in his previous Waits’ concert at Godfrey’s, will play guitar. There will be backup singers, “Jersey Girls” Ginger Brew and Cindi Greatsinger. “Jersey Girl,” which Waits wrote for his wife Kathleen Brennan, was recorded by Bruce Springsteen.

Joe Mixon, one of Brosky’s partners on duo gigs, will play guitar and banjo, with Al Kratzer on bass, and Ruben Ariola on percussion and drums. Brosky worked with Mixon in Steve Brosky and the BBC. That band had a regional hit with “Hey Now (Do the Dutch)” in 1983.

The Godfrey’s concert will not be a tribute show that tries to perfectly reproduce copies of the original songs.

“They are rearranged a little bit, some with a lounge band sensibility. I think it is a nice way to present Tom’s music,” says Brosky.

Brosky lives in Whitehall, across the Lehigh River from Catasauqua, with his wife Renate. He has pretty much renewed his busy performance schedule that was interrupted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shutdown. Brosky usual performs in a duo with a variety of guitarists who include John Cannovo, Josh Klein, Kenny Siftar and Mixon.

At Godfrey’s proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the concert is required. Face masks must be worn.

Tickets: Godfrey Daniels box office, 7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem; godfreydaniels.org; 610-867-2390