The Heart of Saturday Night

The Heart of Saturday Night

by Tom Waits
The Heart of Saturday Night

The Heart of Saturday Night

by Tom Waits

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record - 180 Gram Vinyl)

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Overview

If Closing Time, Tom Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. On "Diamonds on My Windshield" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night," Waits doesn't even sing, instead reciting his verse rhythmically against bass and drums like a Beat hipster. Musically, the album contains the same mixture of folk, blues, and jazz as its predecessor, with producer Bones Howe occasionally bringing in an orchestra to underscore the loping melodies. Waits' songs are sometimes sketchier in addition to being more impersonal, but "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" and "Semi Suite" are the equal of anything on Closing Time. Still, with lines such as "...the clouds are like headlines/Upon a new front page sky" and references to "a 24-hour moon" and "champagne stars," Waits' imagery is beginning to get florid, and in material this stylized, the danger of self-parody is always present. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 05/11/2018
Label: Anti-
UPC: 0045778756612
Rank: 4359

Tracks

  1. Fumblin' With the Blues
  2. New Coat of Paint
  3. Please Call Me, Baby
  4. San Diego Serenade
  5. Depot, Depot
  6. Semi Suite
  7. Drunk On the Moon
  8. Shiver Me Timbers
  9. Diamonds On My Windshield
  10. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)
  11. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tom Waits   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Piano (Electric),Guitar (Acoustic)
Shelly Manne   Drums
Bones Howe   Percussion
Jack Sheldon   Trumpet
Gene Cipriano   Clarinet
Oscar Brashear   Trumpet
Frank Vicari   Sax (Tenor)
Jim Gordon   Drums,Knee Slaps
Jim Hughart   Bass,Guitar (Bass),Bass (Upright),Bass (Electric)
Mike Melvoin   Piano,Conductor,Piano (Electric)
Tom Scott   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Arthur Richards   Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

Bob Alcivar   Arranger
Bette Midler   Composer
Bones Howe   Engineer,Producer
Scott Smith   Photography
Terry Dunavan   Mastering
Mark "Moogy" Klingman   Composer
Tom Waits   Composer,Lyricist
Mike Melvoin   Orchestral Arrangements
Geoff Howe   Engineer
Pamela Vale   Production Coordination
Cal Schenkel   Art Direction
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