Tom Waits
Small Change LP

Remastered and reissued on Anti. The fourth release in Tom Waits' series of skid row travelogues, Small Change proves to be the archetypal album of his '70s work. A jazz trio comprising tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, plus an occasional string section, back Waits and his piano on songs steeped in whiskey and atmosphere in which he alternately sings in his broken-beaned drunk's voice (now deeper and overtly influenced by Louis Armstrong) and recites jazzy poetry. It's as if Waits were determined to combine the Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson characters from Casablanca with a dash of On the Road's Dean Moriarty to illuminate a dark world of bars and all-night diners. Of course, he'd been in that world before, but in songs like The Piano Has Been Drinking and Bad Liver and a Broken Heart, Waits gives it its clearest expression.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 1976 / Reissue 2018

Tracklist:

A1 Tom Traubert’s Blues

A2 Step Right Up

A3 Jitterbug Boy

A4 I Wish I Was In New Orleans

A5 The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

B1 Invitation To The Blues

B2 Pasties And A G-String

B3 Bad Liver And A Broken Heart

B4 The One That Got Away

B5 Small Change

B6 I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work