The Dime Store Novels Vol1

by Tom Waits

The Dime Store Novels Vol1 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 December 2001
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 48:45
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Dime Store Novels Vol. 1' preserves Tom Waits live in 1977 at Ebbets Field in Denver, touring the barroom ballad style of his Asylum years. The bootleg captures his beat-inflected stage patter between songs.

Genres

Descriptors: live, storytelling, piano, bluesy, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You (5:27)
  2. San Diego Serenade (2:56)
  3. Good Night Loving Trail (5:48)
  4. Diamonds On My Windshield (2:21)
  5. Ice Cream Man (2:53)
  6. Please Call Me Baby (5:09)
  7. Better Off Without A Wife (2:27)
  8. The Ghost Of Saturday Night (2:52)
  9. Big Joe & Phantom 309 (5:21)
  10. SemiSuite (3:05)
  11. Ol' 55 (3:29)
  12. On A Foggy Night (2:33)
  13. Martha (4:24)

Credits

  • Tom Waits - primary artist, songwriter [all songs by]
  • Christian Thompson - design
  • Brian I. McNeill - liner notes [confessions of a melancholic soul]
  • Rex Features - photography by [tom waits photos]
  • Utah Phillips - written-by
  • Tommy Faile - written-by

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