swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits
swordfishtrombones
1983

If you've never had the pleasure of someone playing you their favorite Tom Waits album, this disc will introduce you to the quirky humor, poignant back-alley and barroom poetry, and Bukowskiesque vision you've been missing. From the fearful "16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six" ("16 shells from a thirty-ought six... whittle you into kindlin'") to the haunting dead-railroad-town vision of "Town With No Cheer" ("there's a hummingbird trapped in a closed-down shoe store") to the prison-break adrenaline of "Trouble's Braids", Waits takes you for a ride that will rush by your windows long after the music stops.

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