UMG - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - Remastered SHM-CD - COMPACT DISCS

Digitally remastered edition. Noted as Tom Waits' most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits' albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical InchCanterbury TalesInch with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus-and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There's the aching InchHang Down Your Head,Inch and the moving anthem, InchDowntown Train,Inch which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart. Waits coined the term, Inchrain dog,Inch a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album gruff, wandering merchant marines (InchSingaporeInch), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (InchCemetery PolkaInch), a Inchjockey full of bourbonInch (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (InchTimeInch), a Inchgun street girl,Inch the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself Aboard a shipwreck train / Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs / For I am a Rain Dog, too. Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½Inch flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits' longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Rain Do

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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. 1978's Blue Valentine is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, the singer/songwriter is getting rawer and bluesier and the title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwin's InchSomewhere,Inch and the beautiful piano ballad, InchKentucky Ave.,Inch but you also get the juke joint swagger of InchRomeo Is BleedingInch and InchWhistlin Past the Graveyard.Inch This is also the record that contains one of Waits' most popular songs ever, InchChristmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis.Inch