Closing Time – Tom Waits
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$65.00
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Original price
$65.00
Original price
$65.00
$65.00
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$65.00
Current price
$65.00
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Ships from: Melbourne
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The seventies still shape Tom Waits' image today. Although the singer, composer, actor and author, who was born in 1949 in Pomona, California, has lived relatively well for decades in tidy bourgeois conditions, he is still attached to the romantic reputation of a vagabond, eccentric and eager to drink eccentric, who, as a mixture of Charles Baudelaire and the young Charles Bukowski, gives his rubbing iron voice to the people in the ditch of the affluent societyThe starting point was Waits' debut "Closing Time" published in March 1973. This was recorded the year before in only ten days with a studio band under the direction of producer Jerry Yester. Even though the Waits mixture of jazz, folk, blues, R'n'B, vaudeville and theater music didn't really fit in with the times, the album was well received everywhere. In 1974 the Eagles covered the song "Ol' 55", later Lee Hazlewood and Tim Buckley dedicated themselves to the heartbreaking piece "Martha". Also on "Closing Time" is the acoustic number "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You".
Review
AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:A1 Ol' '55
A2 I Hope That I Don´T Fall In Love With You
A3 Virginia Avenue
A4 Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
A5 Midnight Lullaby
A6 Martha
B1 Rosie
B2 Lonely
B3 Ice Cream Man
B4 Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love)
B5 Grapefruit Moon
B6 Closing Time