Asylum Years

by Tom Waits

Asylum Years cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Asylum
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:10:31
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Surveying the highly acclaimed 1970s output of the gravel-voiced Californian, this compilation captures his persona as a tragic, jazz-inflected barroom balladeer. It effectively summarizes his foundational songwriting era before his radical sonic reinvention in the early 1980s.

Genres

Descriptors: Acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Diamonds On My Windshield (3:12)
  2. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night (3:53)
  3. Martha (4:30)
  4. The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House) (3:16)
  5. Grapefruit Moon (4:50)
  6. Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38) (5:07)
  7. Burma-Shave (6:34)
  8. I Never Talk To Strangers (3:38)
  9. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) (6:39)
  10. Blue Valentines (5:50)
  11. Potter's Field (8:40)
  12. Kentucky Avenue (4:49)
  13. Somewhere (3:52)
  14. Ruby's Arms (5:35)

Credits

  • Larry Troutman - arranged by, written-by
  • Terry Dunavan - lacquer cut by
  • James Cameron - soloist
  • Johnny Lytle - soloist
  • Shirley Murdock - soloist

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