Blue Valentine

by Tom Waits

Type: Album
Released: 5 September 1978
Label: Asylum
Country: United States
Length: 49:36
Community rating: 4.07/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Transitioning slightly away from his jazzy beat-poetry origins, Tom Waits introduces stinging electric guitars and grittier blues arrangements on 'Blue Valentine'. The album is a profoundly poetic, deeply nocturnal exploration of heartbreaking urban romance, balancing his remarkably sad, raw vocal delivery with surprisingly playful, cinematic storytelling.

Genres

Singer-Songwriter

Descriptors: acoustic, male-vocals, piano, ballad, bluesy, storytelling

Tracklist

Somewhere (From "West Side Story") (3:53)
Red Shoes By The Drugstore (3:14)
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (4:32)
Romeo Is Bleeding (4:52)
$29.00 (8:15)
Wrong Side Of The Road (5:14)
Whistlin' Past The Graveyard (3:17)
Kentucky Avenue (4:49)
A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun (5:36)
Blue Valentines (5:50)

Credits

Tom Waits - primary artist, written-by, vocals, vocals, piano [acoustic], vocals, electric guitar
Ron Coro - art direction, design
Geoff Howe - engineer [2nd]
Ralph Osborn - engineer [2nd]
Herb Cohen Management - management
Terry Dunavan - mastered by [disc mastering]
Rickie Lee Jones - other [cover model, uncredited]
Elliot Gilbert - photography by
Bones Howe - producer [production & sound], engineer
Bill Franks - typography [hand lettering]
Leonard Bernstein - written-by
Stephen Sondheim - written-by
Byron Miller - bass
Ricky Lawson - drums
Roland Bautista - electric guitar
Dawilli Gonga - electric piano [yamaha], electric piano [yamaha electric grand piano]
Jim Hughart - bass
Bobbye Hall - congas
Chip White - drums
Ray Crawford - electric guitar, electric guitar [solo], soloist
Charles Kynard - organ
Frank Vicari - tenor saxophone
Scott Edwards - bass
Earl Palmer - drums
"Shine" Robinson - electric guitar
Harold Battiste - piano
Herb Hardesty - tenor saxophone
Bob Alcivar - arranged by [orchestra], conductor [orchestra]