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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

ΓΓé¼ó Vocals - Tom Waits
ΓΓé¼ó Electric Guitar - Tom Waits, Ray Crawford, Roland Bautista, Alvin "Shine" Robinson
ΓΓé¼ó Bass - Scott Edwards, Jim Hughart, Byron Miller
ΓΓé¼ó Piano - Da Willie Gonga (George Duke), Harold Battiste, Tom Waits
ΓΓé¼ó Organ - Charles Kynard
ΓΓé¼ó Tenor Saxophone - Herbert Hardesty, Frank Vicari
ΓΓé¼ó Drums - Rick Lawson, Earl Palmer, Chip White
ΓΓé¼ó Congas ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ Bobbye Hall Porter
ΓΓé¼ó 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