Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner 180g 2LP (Vinyl)

Live Album Newly Remastered On 180g Vinyl Double LP!
Pressed at RTI!

For his third release, Nighthawks At The Diner (1975), Waits recorded a double album of new music live in front of an audience at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles. The album features Waits setting up many songs by telling the stories behind them, a practice that remains an integral part of his live show to this day. Waits recorded this record with a jazz combo consisting of Mike Melvoin (piano), Pete Christlieb (tenor sax), Jim Hughart (bass) and Bill Goodwin (drums).

Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including Down By Law and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places - although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Newly remastered with Waits/Brennan
• Original artwork
• Pressed at RTI
• Mastering supervised by Gavin Lurssen
• Gatefold jacket

Selections:
Side One:
1. (Opening Intro)
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. (Intro)
4. On A Foggy Night
5. (Intro)
6. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
Side Two:
1. (Intro)
2. Better Off Without A Wife
3. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
Side Three:
1. (Intro)
2. Warm Beer And Cold Women
3. (Intro)
4. Putnam County
5. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
Side Four:
1. Nobody
2. (Intro)
3. Big Joe And Phantom 309
4. Spare Parts II and Closing