WAITS, TOM - BLUE VALENTINE - REMASTERED

 

Back in stock! This 1978 release is a real mixed bag that displays the contrasting extremes of Waits' muse at the time. The album is bookended by a widescreen orchestral version of Bernstein's standard Somewhere, and the smoky jazz guitar of the understated title track. In between there's the tragicomic Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis and the raucous r'n'b of Whistlin- Past the Graveyard. Kentucky Avenue is the obligatory killer tearjerker.