Tom Waits: Rain Dogs [Vinyl 1LP]

Indie Pop / Avant Pop / Muzyka alternatywna
premiera polska: 2023-09-22
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Singlefoldowe etui
opis:
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[…] To właśnie na tym albumie można znaleźć takie 'hity", jak nieśmiertelny 'Time", czy 'Downtown Train" (który nawiasem mówiąc rozsławił dopiero Rod Stewart w kilka lat później). Otwiera go teatralnie złowrogi 'Singapore", który klimatem kojarzy się z bandycką historią ze znikającym w strugach deszczu typkiem spod ciemnej gwiazdy. Uwagę przykuwa także 'Clap Hands", który z kolei przywodzi na myśl zegar tykający w opuszczonym domu na wzgórzu. 'Rain Dogs" to prawdziwa mieszanka klimatów, stylów i pomysłów. Wypełnia go aż 19 kompozycji, ale wśród nich trudno znaleźć cokolwiek słabego. […]

Editor's info:
Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs followed the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape. Referenced as the second album in the “trilogy” in be-tween Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years. Available on 180g black vinyl.

Detailed Description:
Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical “Canterbury Tales” with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus—and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.

Waits coined the term, “rain dog,” a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album: gruff, wandering merchant marines (“Singapore”), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (“Cemetery Polka”), a “jockey full of bourbon” (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (“Time”), a “gun street girl,” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself: Aboard a shipwreck train / Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs / For I am a Rain Dog, too. . .

Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Rain Dogs includes tracks such as “Downtown Train,” “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full Of Bourbon.” Available on 180g black vinyl.

muzycy:
Tom Waits – vocals (1–10, 12–17, 19), guitar (2, 4, 6, 8–10, 15–17), organ (3, 19), piano (5, 12), harmonium (8, 18), banjo (13)
Michael Blair – percussion (1–4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17), marimba (2, 7, 10, 12), drums (8, 14, 18), congas (4), bowed saw (12), parade drum (19)
Stephen Hodges – drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16), parade drum (3)
Larry Taylor – double bass (1, 3, 4, 6, 8–10, 15), bass (7, 11, 14, 16)
Marc Ribot – guitar (1–4, 7, 8, 10)
"Hollywood" Paul Litteral – trumpet (1, 11, 19)
Bobby Previte – percussion (2), marimba (2)
William Schimmel – accordion (3, 9, 10)
Bob Funk – trombone (1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 19)
Ralph Carney – baritone saxophone (4, 14), saxophone (11, 18), clarinet (12)
Greg Cohen – double bass (5, 12, 13)
Chris Spedding – guitar (1)
Tony Garnier – double bass (2)
Keith Richards – guitar (6, 14, 15), backing vocals (15)
Robert Musso – banjo (7)
Arno Hecht – tenor saxophone (11, 19)
Crispin Cioe – saxophone (11, 19)
Robert Quine – guitar (15, 17)
Ross Levinson – violin (15)
John Lurie – alto saxophone (16)
G.E. Smith – guitar (17)
Mickey Curry – drums (17)
Tony Levin – bass (17)
Robbie Kilgore – organ (17)

utwory:
A1. Singapore
A2. Clap Hands
A3. Cemetery Polka
A4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
A5. Tango Till They're Sore
A6. Big Black Mariah
A7. Diamonds And Gold
A8. Hang Down Your Head
A9. Time
B1. Rain Dogs
B2. Midtown
B3. 9th & Hennepin
B4. Gun Street Girl
B5. Union Square
B6. Blind Love
B7. Walking Spanish
B8. Downtown Train
B9. Bride Of Rain Dog
B10. Anywhere I Lay My Head

wydano: 2023-09-22 (1985)
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more info2: www.tomwaits.com; www.tomwaitslibrary.com
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