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Tom Waits
Blue Valentine




Label: Elektra
Released: 1978
Source: Original CD
Size Torrent: 243 MB
Format: FLAC





More hard-boiled tales from Tom Waits, who manages to sing lines like \"Everyone I know is either dead or in prison\" in a raw, whiskey-soaked rasp that sounds both comical and deadly serious. Waits doesn\'t break any new creative ground here but continues to refine his down-and-out persona. It\'s booze and broads, sex and violence, laughs and heartbreak. This 1978 album opens with an astonishingly desperate version of \"Somewhere\" (from \"West Side Story\"), performed like Louie Armstrong with a migraine. From there it\'s the usual Waits mix of crackpot wordplay and the cocktail lounge jazz likes of \"Romeo Is Bleeding\".





Personnel

• Vocals - Tom Waits
• Electric Guitar - Tom Waits, Ray Crawford, Roland Bautista, Alvin \"Shine\" Robinson
• Bass - Scott Edwards, Jim Hughart, Byron Miller
• Piano - Da Willie Gonga (George Duke), Harold Battiste, Tom Waits
• Organ - Charles Kynard
• Tenor Saxophone - Herbert Hardesty, Frank Vicari
• Drums - Rick Lawson, Earl Palmer, Chip White
• Congas – Bobbye Hall Porter
• Orchestra - Bob Alcivar





Track Listing

01 - Somewhere (From \'West Side Story\')
02 - Red Shoes by the Drugstore
03 - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
04 - Romeo Is Bleeding
05 - 29 Dollars
06 - Wrong Side of the Road
07 - Whistlin\' Past the Graveyard
08 - Kentucky Avenue
09 - A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun
10 - Blue Valentines