Tom Waits / Used Songs (1973-1980) – CD (Used)

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Author: Tom Waits

Features:

• WAITS TOM
• R&P INTERNATIONAL
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Original recording remastered

Release Date: 30-10-2001

Details: Amazon.caThose only familiar with Tom Waits’s experimental post-Swordfishtrombones music on Island are often surprised and delighted to discover the singer-songwriter’s pre-Swordfishtrombones work on Elektra. A sampling of Waits’s nascent recordings is spotlighted on this Rhino compilation. Offering up a beat « hobo » persona that’s part Jack Kerouac and part Charles Bukowski, Waits delivered a more traditional American musical persona back then. In fact, some of his melodies approached Stephen Foster territory (witness the absolutely gorgeous « Heart of Saturday Night »). « Ol’ 55 » became famous via an Eagles cover, Bruce Springsteen would immortalize « Jersey Girl, » and « Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard »–which highlights his Louis Armstrong-meets-Captain Beefheart vocals of the period–still rocks. But while it’s an excellent introduction, tracks like the beautiful « Tom Troubert’s Blues » will only make the more newly initiated want to hear albums like Small Change in their entirety. –Bill HoldshipProduct descriptionWAITS TOM

UPC: 081227835125

EAN: 0081227835125

Model: 8122-78351-2,

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood