Blue Valentine
by Tom Waits£5.94 Free Shipping
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- Released
- 15/05/1990
- Music Genre
- Folk, Rock
Description
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.
Product Details
- Artist
- Tom Waits
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- WAR
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Original year of release
- 1978
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1994
- Cast & Crew
- Tom Waits (Music Performer)
- Bones Howe (Producer)
- Bones Howe (Sound Engineer)
Press Reviews
3 Stars - Good - "...mindful that he was getting stuck in a retro groove, Waits switched from piano to electric guitar for much of BLUE VALENTINE....years of nicotine and alcohol abuse were taking their toll nicely on his voice... Q (10/92, p.101)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Somewhere [From West Side Story]
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Red Shoes By the Drugstore
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Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
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Romeo Is Bleeding
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Twenty-Nine Dollars
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Wrong Side of the Road
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Whistlin' Past the Graveyard
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Kentucky Avenue
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Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
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Blue Valentines
