Waits, Tom ‎– Heartattack And Vine

NEW VINYL LP ON ANTI 2018

180 GRAM VINYL.

Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits' seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it's transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978's excellent Blue Valentine and 1977's Foreign Affairs, he was already messing with off-kilter rhythms even in the most conventionally structured blues and jazz songs, with nastier-sounding guitars -- he plays a particularly gnarly style of rhythm on this entire album. Five of these nine tracks are rooted in gutbucket blues with rock edges and primal R&B beats. By this time, his singing voice had deteriorated to a gasping-for-breath whiskey-and-cigarettes growl that could make words indecipherable from one another, but his jazzman-inspired phrasing more than compensated.

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Tracklist

A1 Heartattack And Vine 4:42
A2 In Shades 4:04
A3 Saving All My Love For You 3:39
A4 Downtown 4:43
A5 Jersey Girl 5:09
B1 'Til The Money Runs Out 4:20
B2 On The Nickel 6:17
B3 Mr. Siegal 5:13
B4 Ruby's Arms 5:35