Tom Waits - Blue Valentine [Remastered LP] preorder_blocked_bt Produced just after the Covid

Produced just after the Covid pandemic

from his trio project

Notenbrief fur Mathilde Wesendonck

Looking Back

Tom Waits - Blue Valentine [Remastered LP] preorder_blocked_bt Produced just after the CovidBlue Valentine (1978) is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits is getting rawer and bluesier and the title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwins Somewhere, and the beautiful piano ballad, Kentucky Ave., but you also get the juke joint swagger of Romeo Is Bleeding and Whistlin Past the Graveyard. This is also the record