Time: 77:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues, Rock, Jazz
Art: Front
01. Standin' On The Corner (Live) ( 6:43)
02. I Never Talk To Strangers (Live) ( 4:01)
03. Pasties And G-Strings (Live) ( 6:31)
04. Invitation To The Blues/Eggs And Sausage (Live) ( 8:23)
05. Jitterbug Boy (Live) ( 6:24)
06. Step Right Up (Live) ( 5:19)
07. I Wish I Was In New Orleans/Small Change (Live) (11:55)
08. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Live) ( 3:47)
09. Emotional Weather Report (Live) ( 4:57)
10. Muriel (Live) ( 5:00)
11. Jack & Neal California, Here I Come (Live) ( 6:01)
12. Tom Traubert's Blues (Live) ( 8:36)
Music is likely the most universal of all arts. People play it in every city, village, berg, back-assed hole in the jungle hovel the world over. Albums are cut everyday in nearly every country in the universe. Usually those albums are simply released in their country of origin. For example if you sign to an American label you'll likely only see your album released in the US. Folks living elsewhere will have to have someone send it to them or just be out of luck.
If you are a rather popular artist, or are signed to a bigger label your record might get released in other countries. For some reason those release dates are often different than the initial release dates in the country or origin. Sometimes other countries also get bonus tracks tacked on. I don't really understand the reasons for this (especially in a time in which anybody with an Internet connection can grab the songs at any time) or the full machinations of it. I just know it happens.
I also know when I'm browsing Amazon looking for interesting new releases I often see albums with a little Import tag which tells me that album is being released elsewhere at the moment, not here. Again I don't understand the ins and outs of this, nor why Amazon only lists certain albums like this and not every album being released in the UK or wherever that doesn't have a proper US date. Perhaps some releases Amazon buys up and imports automatically with a willingness to sell it to you at a mark-up. Or maybe its something else, I dunno.
Normally I just ignore imports figuring they don't belong in an article about new releases in the good old US of A. But this week something really caught my eye.
Tom Waits is brilliant, just brilliant. He's a carnival barker, a preacher of sinners, patron saint of the underbelly. He writes beautiful songs about the ugly sides of life. In concert he is a master. He rarely tours anymore but from the many bootlegs I have of his, he is absolutely someone to catch anytime you can. I actually have the bootleg for this recording at tiny club in New York. It is an amazing piece of work. Recorded in 1977 Waits had only been performing for a few years and had but four eclectic albums under his belt. Still he already had his schtick down to an art and it is really quite something to hear here.
For most of the show he is in full on carnival barker of the damned mode barking out songs of sex, alcohol and the seedier sides of living. His songs are dark and sad and hilarious. Waits chats some between songs and he already shows he knows how to hold an audience in his palm.
Though it is an import I'm thrilled to see this classic show from Tom Waits at My Father's Place in New York City is getting an official release. Which is why I'm making it my Pick of the Week. ~Mat Brewster
If you are a rather popular artist, or are signed to a bigger label your record might get released in other countries. For some reason those release dates are often different than the initial release dates in the country or origin. Sometimes other countries also get bonus tracks tacked on. I don't really understand the reasons for this (especially in a time in which anybody with an Internet connection can grab the songs at any time) or the full machinations of it. I just know it happens.
I also know when I'm browsing Amazon looking for interesting new releases I often see albums with a little Import tag which tells me that album is being released elsewhere at the moment, not here. Again I don't understand the ins and outs of this, nor why Amazon only lists certain albums like this and not every album being released in the UK or wherever that doesn't have a proper US date. Perhaps some releases Amazon buys up and imports automatically with a willingness to sell it to you at a mark-up. Or maybe its something else, I dunno.
Normally I just ignore imports figuring they don't belong in an article about new releases in the good old US of A. But this week something really caught my eye.
Tom Waits is brilliant, just brilliant. He's a carnival barker, a preacher of sinners, patron saint of the underbelly. He writes beautiful songs about the ugly sides of life. In concert he is a master. He rarely tours anymore but from the many bootlegs I have of his, he is absolutely someone to catch anytime you can. I actually have the bootleg for this recording at tiny club in New York. It is an amazing piece of work. Recorded in 1977 Waits had only been performing for a few years and had but four eclectic albums under his belt. Still he already had his schtick down to an art and it is really quite something to hear here.
For most of the show he is in full on carnival barker of the damned mode barking out songs of sex, alcohol and the seedier sides of living. His songs are dark and sad and hilarious. Waits chats some between songs and he already shows he knows how to hold an audience in his palm.
Though it is an import I'm thrilled to see this classic show from Tom Waits at My Father's Place in New York City is getting an official release. Which is why I'm making it my Pick of the Week. ~Mat Brewster
My Father's Place