Sunday, July 4, 2010

Small Change CD review

Tom Waits, 1976.

From Waits's "first phase", the "barfly years"...
Still accessible, with a boozy, bluesy feel, lyrically clever, sharp and very, very funny.
Many highlights - The Piano Has Been Drinking, Step Right Up, Pasties and a G String are but 3...
If you like your Tom Waits with a bit of tone and melodic warmth, rather than the Berlin mutant-megaphone performances he is currently capable of, this is more the era for you (pre Swordfishtrombones).
What's not to like?

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