Foreign Affairs
by Tom Waits
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 September 1977
- Label: Asylum
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:06
- Community rating: 3.06/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Leaning even further into lush cinematic orchestration and smoky jazz-club atmospheres, Tom Waits's 'Foreign Affairs' is a gorgeous late-night travelogue of broken hearts and barroom characters. The album features deeply poetic, wonderfully bittersweet duets with Bette Midler, highlighting his incredibly mellow, melancholic romanticism and humorous alcohol-soaked storytelling.
Genres
Descriptors: alcohol
Tracklist
- Cinny's Waltz (2:17)
- Muriel (3:33)
- I Never Talk To Strangers (3:38)
- Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come (5:01)
- A Sight For Sore Eyes (4:40)
- Potter's Field (8:40)
- Burma-Shave (6:34)
- Barber Shop (3:54)
- Foreign Affair (3:46)
Credits
- Tom Waits - primary artist, piano, vocals, written-by, words by
- Bob Alcivar - arranged by [orchestra], conductor, music by, arranged by, conductor
- Glen Christensen - art direction, design
- Jim Hughart - bass
- Shelly Manne - drums
- Geoff Howe - engineer [2nd engineer]
- Herb Cohen - management [bail bonds & bizness affairs]
- Edgar Lustgarten - management [orchestra]
- Jim Robak - management [orchestra]
- Terry Dunavan - mastered by [disc mastering]
- George Hurrell - photography by
- Bones Howe - producer [production and sound], engineer
- Frank Vicari - tenor saxophone, soloist
- Jack Sheldon - trumpet, soloist
- Bette Midler - featuring [co-starring]
- Al Jolson - written-by [california here i come]
- Buddy G. De Sylva - written-by [california here i come]
- Joseph Meyer - written-by [california here i come]
- Gene Cipriano - clarinet, soloist