Tom Waits - Blue Valentine (Remastered)
- Somewhere
- Red Shoes By the Drugstore
- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- $29.00
- Wrong Side of the Road
- Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
- Kentucky Avenue
- A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
- Blue Valentines
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 10
- Edition
- Remastered
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 ""Somewhere,"" and the beautiful piano ballad, ""Kentucky Ave.,"" but you also get the juke joint swagger of ""Romeo Is Bleeding"" and ""Whistlin Past the Graveyard."" This is also the record that contains one of Waits' most popular songs ever, ""Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis.""
- Somewhere (From ""West Side Story"")
- Red Shoes By the Drugstore
- Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
- Romeo Is Bleeding
- $29.00
- Wrong Side of the Road
- Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
- Kentucky Avenue
- A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
- Blue Valentine
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 10
Digitally remastered edition. Blue Valentine is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits is getting rawer and bluesier and title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwin's ""Somewhere"", and the beautiful piano ballad, ""Kentucky Ave."", but you also get the juke joint swagger of ""Romeo Is Bleeding"" and ""Whistlin' Past the Graveyard"". This is also the record that contains one of Waits' most popular songs ever, ""Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis"". Tom Waits is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor. His deep distinctive gravelly voice was described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding as though ""it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car"". Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona with his trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music.
