Format Details:
Release Date: 28 April 2023
Label: FM Concerts
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5056083211272
Description
One of the most insightful songwriters to come out of America, the Tom Waits of the 70s was part Beat poet, part barfly, all heart-on-sleeve troubadour who could find humour in even the most tragic situations. Yet while his hard-drinking lifestyle threatened to catch up with him in the mid-to-late 70s, Waits was always at the top of his game as a performer, as the two TV specials included on The Austin Broadcast 1978 & the 1976 European Broadcast make clear.
The first, recorded for an Austin City Limits TV special just months after the release of his sixth studio album, Blue Valentine, plays like a fever dream from a smoky jazz club, Waits delivering the Great American Songbook classic Summertime alongside some of his finest narrative songs, including Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis and Small Change.
The performance filmed in a TV studio in Denmark, on 1 June 1976, finds the fast-developing talent honing his stagecraft. Bonus Track The Piano Has Been Drinking, recorded in 1977, captures that talent exploding in hilarious wordplay.
Tracklisting
Genesis
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Alice Cooper
Sade
Supertramp
The Carpenters
Paul McCartney and Wings
Kevin Ayers and the Whole World
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
