Tom Waits

Tom Waits is an artist that cannot be labeled though I'll try for the conventions of this blog. He is one of the best baby boomer ever born. According to a music critic, his voice sounds "like 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." It's got character.

This album is my favorite by him. I love it just for the song "The Piano has been Drinking". It should put a smile on you face somehow. If it doesn't, then you're a perfect Tom Waits fan.

1. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind)
2. Step Right Up
3. Jitterbug Boy
4. I Wish I Was in New Orleans
5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
6. Invitation to the Blues
7. Pasties and a G-string
8. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
9. The One That Got Away
10. Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)
11. I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)

1976, 36.28

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