Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
(Asylum Records K53088)
Matrix No’s: A3/B2
Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent conditiion
– some wear to edges/corners and small sticker tear on front
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle – there is a mark on side 2 but it’s not audible)
Thomas Alan “Tom” Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.
Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by American rock musician Tom Waits, released in September 1978 on Asylum Records.
Track listing
All tracks written by Tom Waits, except where noted.
Side one
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Somewhere” (From West Side Story) | Music: Leonard Bernstein; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim | 3:53 | |
| 2. | “Red Shoes by the Drugstore” | 3:14 | ||
| 3. | “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” | 4:33 | ||
| 4. | “Romeo Is Bleeding” | 4:52 | ||
| 5. | “$29.00” | 8:15 |
Side two
| No. | Title | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Wrong Side of the Road” | 5:14 | |
| 2. | “Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard” | 3:17 | |
| 3. | “Kentucky Avenue” | 4:49 | |
| 4. | “A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun” | 5:36 | |
| 5. | “Blue Valentines” | 5:49 |
Personnel
- Vocals – Tom Waits
- Electric guitar – Tom Waits, Ray Crawford, Roland Bautista, Alvin “Shine” Robinson
- Bass – Scott Edwards, Jim Hughart, Byron Miller
- Piano – Da Willie Gonga (George Duke), Harold Battiste, Tom Waits
- Organ – Charles Kynard
- Tenor saxophone – Herbert Hardesty, Frank Vicari
- Drums – Rick Lawson, Earl Palmer, Chip White
- Congas – Bobbye Hall Porter (“Romeo Is Bleeding”)
- Orchestra – Bob Alcivar
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