Big Time
by Tom Waits
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1988
- Label: Island
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:07:32
- Community rating: 3.89/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as the soundtrack to a surreal concert film, this album highlights the wildly eccentric, junkyard-percussion sound the songwriter perfected throughout the 1980s. Blending elements of Weimar cabaret with gravelly blues-rock, the recording captures the artist's masterful, heavily theatrical stage persona.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, theatrical, bluesy, live, storytelling
Tracklist
- 16 Shells From A 30.6 (4:18)
- Red Shoes (4:18)
- Underground (2:34)
- Cold Cold Ground (3:26)
- Straight To The Top (2:48)
- Yesterday Is Here (2:40)
- Way Down In The Hole (4:43)
- Falling Down (4:14)
- Strange Weather (3:35)
- Big Black Mariah (2:58)
- Rain Dogs (3:36)
- Train Song (4:29)
- Johnsburg, Illinois (1:29)
- Ruby's Arms (4:53)
- Telephone Call From Istanbul (4:17)
- Clap Hands (4:56)
- Gun Street Girl (4:01)
- Time (4:11)
Credits
- Willy Schwarz - accordion, organ [hammond], sitar, congas
- Michael Blair - drums, percussion, bongos, drums [brake drums]
- Greg Cohen - electric bass, alto horn
- Marc Ribot - guitar, banjo, trumpet
- Ralph Carney - saxophone, clarinet, baritone horn
- Larry Taylor - double bass [upright bass]
- Richie Hayward - drums
- Fred Tackett - guitar