Blue Valentine
Tom Waits - CD
- Artist: Tom Waits
- Year: 1978
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075596053327
- Item Number: WEA605332
- Release date: 05/15/1990
- 1. Somewhere [From West Side Story]
- 2. Red Shoes by the Drugstore
- 3. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
- 4. Romeo Is Bleeding
- 5. $29.00
- 6. Wrong Side of the Road
- 7. Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
- 8. Kentucky Avenue
- 9. A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
- 10. Blue Valentines
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Blue Valentine by Tom Waits on CD
Two welcome changes in style made Blue Valentine a fresh listening experience for Tom Waits fans. First, Waits alters the instrumentation, bringing in electric guitar and keyboards and largely dispensing with the strings for a more blues-oriented, hard-edged sound. Second, though his world view remains fixed on the lowlifes of the late night, he expands beyond the musings of the barstool philosopher who previously had acted as the first-person character of most of his songs. When Waits does use the first-person, it's to write a "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis," not the figure most listeners had associated with the singer himself. The result is a broadening of subject matter, a narrative discipline that makes most of the tunes story songs, and a coherent framing for Waits' typically colorful and intriguing imagery. These are not radical reinventions, but Waits had followed such a rigidly stylized approach on his previous albums that for anyone who had followed him so far, the course correction was big news. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
- Artist: Tom Waits
- Year: 1978
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075596053327
- Item Number: WEA605332
- Release date: 05/15/1990
- Label: Wea/Elektra Entertainment
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Style: Blues-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Album Rock
- Album Time: 49:09
- Alice
- Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
- Big Time
- Blood Money
- Blue Valentine (Import)
- Bone Machine
- Closing Time
- Closing Time (Import)
- Foreign Affairs (Import)
- Franks Wild Years
- Glitter and Doom Live
- Heartattack and Vine (Import)
- Heartattack and Vine (Import)
- Mule Variations
- Mule Variations [Japan Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Nighthawks at the Diner
- Nighthawks at the Diner (Import)
- Orphans (Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)
- Rain Dogs
- Real Gone
- Small Change
- Swordfishtrombones
- Swordfishtrombones
- The Asylum Years (Import)
- The Black Rider
- The Classic Interviews
- The Early Years, Vol. 1
- The Early Years, Vol. 2
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- The Heart of Saturday Night (Import)
- Used Songs (1973-1980)
- Swordfishtrombones
- Mule Variations
- Blood Money
- Alice
- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- Real Gone
- Glitter & Doom Live
- Bad as Me
- Bad as Me
- Bad as Me - Deluxe Edition
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- Blue Valentine (Import)
- Foreign Affairs (Import)
- Closing Time (Import)
- The Heart of Saturday Night
- Small Change
- Nighthawks at the Diner
- Closing Time
- Closing Time (Import)
- WAITS,TOM: HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT
- Small Change (Import)
- Rain Dogs
- Bone Machine
- Swordfishtrombones (Import)
- Rain Dogs (Import)
- Franks Wild Years (Import)
- Big Time (Import)
- Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (Import)
- Mule Variations (Import)
- Franks Wild Years (Import)
- Rain Dogs (Import)
- The Asylum Years
- Tom Waits : Asylum Years
- The Early Years, Vol. 1
- The Early Years, Vol. 2
- 'Round Midnight: The Minneapolis Broadcast 1975
- The Document
- Romeo Bleeding: Live from Austin
- Mule Variations
- Real Gone
- Bad as Me [Deluxe Edition] (Import)
- The Asylum Years (Import)
- Composers:
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Performers:
- Bobbye Hall - Conga, Percussion
- Byron Miller - Bass
- Charles Kynard - Organ, Bass
- Chip White - Drums
- Dawilli Gonga - Keyboards, Piano (Electric)
- Earl Palmer - Drums
- Frank Vicari - Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
- Harold Battiste, Jr. - Piano
- Herb Hardesty - Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
- Jim Hughart - Bass
- Ray Crawford - Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
- Ricky Lawson - Drums
- Roland Bautista - Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
- Scott Edwards - Bass
- Shine Robinson - Guitar (Electric), Guitar
- Tom Waits - Guitar, Vocals, Guitar (Electric), Piano
- Credits:
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