Tom Waits - Small Change
Descripción
Unquestionably the definitive recording of Waits' early period, Small Change
brings his beatnik/grifter/gruff, poetic piano man persona into sharp,
defining focus. Waits' blues/jazz/'40s pop amalgam is at its most
cohesive here, as he's backed by three West Coast jazz vets and an
occasional (never overweening) string section. "Tom Traubert's Blues,"
later covered by Rod Stewart, is a milestone and one of the greatest
cry-in-your-beer tunes of all time. Waits plays the down-and-out,
alcohol-ravaged troubadour to perfection here as well as on "Invitation
To The Blues" and the devastating "Bad Liver And A Broken Heart," where
one can almost smell the cheap whiskey on his breath.
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1. | Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) |
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2. | Step Right Up |
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3. | Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie) |
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4. | I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward) |
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5. | The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (an Evening with Pete King) |
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6. | Invitation to the Blues |
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7. | Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club) |
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8. | Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell) |
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9. | The One That Got Away |
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10. | Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38) |
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11. | I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) |
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