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| 1. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) |
| 2. Step Right Up |
| 3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug... |
| 4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward) |
| 5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) |
| 6. Invitation To The Blues |
| 7. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club) |
| 8. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell) |
| 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) |
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En 1976, Tom Waits a encore tout du clochard céleste tel que dépeint par l'écrivain beat Jack Kerouac. Et ce n'est qu'un peu moins de dix ans plus tard qu'il évoluera vers l'opéra de quat'sous avec Swordfishtrombones. Pour l'instant, l'heure est au jazz. Et au blues. Accompagné, comme il les présente, par un trio de grands musiciens dont le batteur de jazz Shelly Manne et les cordes de Jerry Yester, Tom Waits distille une émotion à fleur de peau, que ce soit sur tempo lent ("Tom Traubert's Blues") ou soutenu ("Step Right Up"). Le titre d'un des morceaux rappelle celui d'un recueil de poésies de Bukowski: "The Piano Has Been Drinking". "Not Me" s'empresse-t-il d'ajouter! Small Change aurait été la B.O. idéale du film Barfly... --Philippe Robert
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Tom's audience vastly increased as he went #89 pop with this 1976 LP, which was recorded directly to two-track tape over six days that July. That's the legendary Shelly Manne on the skins, backing slinky saxophone runs and Tom's atmospheric song-stories: Tom Traubert's Blues; The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me); Bad Liver and a Broken Heart; Pasties and a G-String; The One That Got Away perhaps his quintessential '70s album!
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"Tom Traubert's Blues" is a freaking masterpiece. Too bad nothing else on this early Waits album can match it....
By Stephen Bieth
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This is the Waits album I heard first it also my favorite of his albums (well this and Bone Machine). This album is where Tom found his voice. Both singing and writing wise. The ballads on this album are up there with the best piano men songs in history. It also has some great qwirkie tracks like Step Right Up. That's the best thing about this CD is it plays great as a whole or you can program just the ballads and you have one of the greatest late night albums in history.
As for the remastered version from Japan go's it is a great improvement over the current domestic version. Which has never been remastered. The vocals are more upfront and the bass is much warmer.actually it improves everything across the board. Could not be happier with this purchase!
As for the remastered version from Japan go's it is a great improvement over the current domestic version. Which has never been remastered. The vocals are more upfront and the bass is much warmer.actually it improves everything across the board. Could not be happier with this purchase!
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Hmm... from the opening stretches of piano & strings in "Tom Trauberts Blues" to the wrap-up of "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work" this cd is a masterful example of musical storytelling. The character meeting his demise in the title song, the man flipping his quarter while leaning on his lampost, the drunken piano man blaming everyone else, just gorgeous. I believe that this album came out the month I was born as well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Takes me to another place
On this album Tom takes the listener to the same place "Notes from the Underground" takes the reader. Read more
Published on Mar 8 2004 by Rollie Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars
The man can do no wrong
Another superb offering from the poet laureate of Skid Row. This album from the bluesy vagrant phase of Waits's career features more brilliant storytelling ("Small... Read more
Published on Dec 31 2003 by David Bonesteel
3.0 out of 5 stars
For die-hard fans only
As far as music is concerned this record is very weak. For most of the time Tom Waits just mumbles his poetry pretending to play piano. Read more
Published on Nov 4 2003 by Nihlus
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterpieces Hold Up
I first heard this album when it came out in 1977 and listened to it until the grooves turned white. Read more
Published on Sep 17 2003 by A. T. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tom Waits is the patron saint of everything small
Tom Waits is a great American poet, a genius who has created an entire lyric world where somehow wasted life is full of value. Read more
Published on July 1 2003 by mark twain
5.0 out of 5 stars
Step right up. Buy this right now.
I started my Tom Waits collection late in life - I picked up "Alice" when it came out. Until then, I was only vaguely familiar with his work. Read more
Published on April 22 2003 by Clay Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars
classic classic classic
Loved my first Tom Waits album "The Heart of Saturday Night" for its jazzed-up late-night-ramblings feel to it. Read more
Published on Oct 7 2002 by B-Track
4.0 out of 5 stars
Small Change- The first installment of a brilliant trilogy
While much hoopla has been made of Tom Waits' early 80's "Frank's Wild Years" trilogy,let's not forget the brilliant work of "Small Change,"Foreign Affair" and "Blue Valentine"... Read more
Published on July 27 2002 by D.Frizzi
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better
Solid. 'New Orleans,' 'Jitterbug Boy'--complete filler. 'Get Off Work,' astoundingly mediocre. Should've closed with title track (sureal, great). Read more
Published on Mar 22 2002 by GeoX
5.0 out of 5 stars
A masterpiece
This was the very first Tom Waits album I bought and my God...I was speechless after hearing it. When the album opened with Tom Traubert's Blues, I was instantly addicted to it. Read more
Published on Feb 25 2002 by Marcus Kristiansson
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