Nighthawks at the Diner

by Tom Waits

Nighthawks at the Diner cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 October 1975
  • Label: Asylum
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:13:40
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live in front of a small studio audience to capture the authentic ambiance of a smoky jazz club, Tom Waits's third album is an absolute triumph of beat poetry. 'Nighthawks at the Diner' is a wonderfully humorous, deeply nocturnal piano blues journey, full of highly sarcastic, distinctly urban tales of alcohol-soaked loneliness.

Genres

Descriptors: alcohol, male-vocals, live, spoken-word, piano, bluesy, theatrical, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Opening Intro (2:56)
  2. Emotional Weather Report (3:46)
  3. Intro To On A Foggy Night (2:15)
  4. On A Foggy Night (3:47)
  5. Intro To Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) (1:52)
  6. Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) (4:18)
  7. Intro To Better Off Without A Wife (3:02)
  8. Better Off Without A Wife (3:58)
  9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) (11:27)
  10. Intro To Warm Beer And Cold Women (0:55)
  11. Warm Beer And Cold Women (5:19)
  12. Intro To Putnam County (0:47)
  13. Putnam County (7:33)
  14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) (6:25)
  15. Nobody (2:50)
  16. Intro To Big Joe And Phantom 309 (0:41)
  17. Big Joe And Phantom 309 (6:27)
  18. Spare Parts II And Closing (5:16)

Credits

  • Tom Waits - primary artist, piano, vocals, written-by
  • Jim Hughart - bass
  • Cal Schenkel - design
  • Bill Goodwin - drums
  • Mike Melvoin - electric piano
  • Kelly Kotera - engineer [assistant], recorded by [assistant]
  • Norm Dlugatch - engineer [assistant], recorded by [assistant]
  • Rick Smith - engineer [assistant], recorded by [assistant]
  • Ron Marks - engineer [assistant], recorded by [assistant]
  • Steven D. Smith - engineer [assistant], recorded by [assistant]
  • Bones Howe - engineer, producer, recorded by
  • Terry Dunavan - mastered by
  • Herb Cohen - other [instance]
  • Matt Kramer - photography by [back cover]
  • Norman Seeff - photography by [cover, liner]
  • Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
  • Chuck E. Weiss - written-by
  • Tommy Faile - written-by

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