Tom Waits - Blue Valentine - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits' Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts of many fans. Waits' first seven albums on Asylum have been remastered and will be re-released via Anti-Records. Released in 1980, Heartattack and Vine was Waits' final album on Elektra Asylum and it built on the raw blues approach of Blue Valentine with the incendiary title track, the funky, organ driven InchDowntownInch and the stomping NOLA blues of InchMr. Siegal.Inch This album also contains some of Waits' most popular ballads, including InchJersey GirlInch which was famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen. InchOn the NickleInch is a moving song about the homeless people who lived on 5th street in downtown LA, and InchRuby's ArmsInch is a beautiful song with a lovely Bach-like melody. Album Tracks 1. Heartattack and Vine 2. In Shades 3. Saving All My Love for You 4. Downtown 5. Jersey Girl 6. 'Til the Money Runs Out 7. On the Nickel 8. Mr. Siegal 9. Ruby's Arms

Remastered vinyl LP pressing. 1977's Foreign Affairs takes the jazz and poetry that Waits explored on his earlier albums in a more cinematic direction, foreshadowing his own breakthrough work in the '80s. Opening with the instrumental InchCinny's WaltzInch and featuring some new standards like InchMurielInch and InchI Never Talk To Strangers,Inch his dramatic duet with Bette Midler, the album gets into some of Waits' most ambitious storytelling ever. Foreign Affairs also features the jazzy, colorful InchJack and NeilInch and the sweeping, dramatic InchPotters FieldInch as well as the classic ballads InchBurma ShaveInch and InchSight for Sore Eyes.Inch Album Tracks 1. Cinny's Waltz 2. Muriel 3. I Never Talk to Strangers 4. Medley Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come 5. A Sight for Sore Eyes 1. Potter's Field 2. Burma-Shave 3. Barber Shop 4. Foreign Affair

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered for the first time ever from the original ½Inch flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. 2023 marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from '70's-era Inchbluesy, boozyInch wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist-while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity. It's a Waits-arranged pastiche, a variety of atmospheres from different sound planets. There is the warped, marching-army-ants music of InchUnderground,Inch an impressionist chant about people living below cities, but there was also the poignancy of the spare piano ballad, InchSoldier's Things,Inch the good bar yarn, InchFrank's Wild YearsInch, the tender, minimalist paean to Waits' wife and muse, Kathleen, InchJohnsburg, Illinois,Inch and the raggedy anthem to neighborhood chaos, InchIn the Neighborhood.Inch Album Tracks 1. Underground 2. Shore Leave 3. Dave the Butcher 4. Johnsburg Illinois 5. 16 Shells from a 30 6 6. Town with No Cheer 7. In the Neighbourhood 1. Just Another Sucker on the Vine 2. Frank's Wild Years 3. Swordfishtrombone 4. Down Down Down 5. Soldier's Things 6. Gin Soaked Boy 7. Trouble's Braids 8. Rainbirds