“Blue Valentine” by Tom Waits - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1978 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
The first Tom Waits album where Jazz doesn't emerge as the foremost genre. The story goes that part way through the sessions, he replaced his musicians in order to create a less jazz-oriented sound and that he himself switched from piano to electric guitar as his main instrument. I get the impression he's very self aware and that he's keen to keep pushing on artistically; I do like this restless spirit. Ironically, my favourite track, “Romeo Is Bleeding”, is the jazziest thing on the set, but it's delivered in the right way for me - with a sense of Mancini's Pink Panther cool.
The Jukebox Rebel
28–Jan–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:53]  Tom Waits - Somewhere (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) Songwriter |
| A2 | [03:14] Tom Waits - Red Shoes By The Drugstore (Tom Waits) Trance Rock |
| A3 | [04:33]  Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (Tom Waits) Songwriter |
| A4 | [04:52]  Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding (Tom Waits) Jazz |
| A5 | [08:15]  Tom Waits - $29.00 (Tom Waits) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B1 | [05:14]  Tom Waits - Wrong Side Of The Road (Tom Waits) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B2 | [03:17]  Tom Waits - Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard (Tom Waits) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B3 | [04:49]  Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue (Tom Waits) Songwriter |
| B4 | [05:36]  Tom Waits - Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun (Tom Waits) Jazz |
| B5 | [05:49]  Tom Waits - Blue Valentines (Tom Waits) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
