Heartattack and Vine
by Tom Waits
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 September 1980
- Label: Asylum
- Country: United States
- Length: 44:29
- Community rating: 3.97/5 from 11 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Heartattack and Vine' is a transitional album for Tom Waits, marking the end of his '70s jazzbo lounge singer persona and pointing toward the more experimental direction he would take in the '80s. The record is foundationally a blues album, featuring both raucous, gritty blues rockers like the title track and beautiful, tender piano ballads such as 'Jersey Girl' and 'Ruby's Arms'. With his signature gravelly voice and poetic lyrics about downtown characters and heartache, Waits paints a vivid picture of a nocturnal, lovesick, and slightly seedy world.
Genres
Descriptors: alcohol, existential, male-vocalist, bluesy, piano, male-vocals, crooning, storytelling
Tracklist
- Heartattack And Vine (4:50)
- In Shades (4:25)
- Saving All My Love For You (3:41)
- Downtown (4:45)
- Jersey Girl (5:11)
- 'Til The Money Runs Out (4:25)
- On The Nickel (6:19)
- Mr. Siegal (5:14)
- Ruby's Arms (5:35)
Credits
- Norm Ung - art direction, design
- Ron Coro - art direction, design
- Geoff Howe - engineer [2nd engineer]
- Bones Howe - engineer [engineered by], producer [production and sound]
- Herb Cohen Management - management [the villa capri...at last]
- Terry Dunavan - mastered by [disc mastering]
- Greg Gorman - photography by [front cover photography]
- Tom Waits - songwriter [all songs written by]
- Dayton “Bones” Howe - producer