Closing Time
by Tom Waits
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 March 1973
- Label: Asylum
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:39
- Community rating: 4.11/5 from 12 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Prior to adopting his infamously gravelly, avant-garde beat-poet persona, Tom Waits debuted with an incredibly tender, beautifully melodic collection of late-night barroom ballads. 'Closing Time' is a wonderfully melancholic, intensely nocturnal piano blues triumph, overflowing with deeply poetic, remarkably romantic tales of alcohol-soaked heartbreak and profound urban loneliness.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, ballad, alcohol, piano, crooning, bluesy
Tracklist
- Ol' 55 (3:56)
- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You (3:53)
- Virginia Avenue (3:09)
- Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) (3:39)
- Midnight Lullaby (3:25)
- Martha (4:28)
- Rosie (4:02)
- Lonely (3:12)
- Ice Cream Man (3:04)
- Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love) (3:40)
- Grapefruit Moon (4:45)
- Closing Time (4:20)
Credits
- Tom Waits - primary artist, celesta, guitar, harmonium, harpsichord, piano, vocals [vocal], written-by
- Jerry Yester - arranged by [string quartet arrangement], producer [produced by], producer
- Arni Egilsson - bass
- Bill Plummer - bass
- Jesse Ehrlich - cello
- Cal Schenkel - design [package design], design/illustration
- John Seiter - drums, vocals [vocal]
- Richard Moore - engineer [engineered by], engineer
- Peter Klimes - guitar, guitar [6 string], pedal steel guitar
- Shep Cooke - guitar, guitar [6 string], vocals [vocal]
- Herb Cohen - management [this production committed to asylum by]
- Ed Caraeff - photography by, photography
- Delbert Bennett - trumpet
- Tony Terran - trumpet