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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 /TiVo
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Stephen Sondheim, Writer - Leonard Bernstein, Writer - Tom Waits, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Universal Music Publishing (Ascap), MusicPublisher - Warner Chappell (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Tom Waits, Writer, MainArtist - BONES HOWE, Producer, Engineer - Ralph Osborne, Engineer - Jalma Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - Geoff Howe, Engineer
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:32
- Main artists: Tom Waits
- Label: Anti - Epitaph
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp. 2018 Lost Henry. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
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