TOM WAITS Nighthawks At The Diner - 2 Lp Set - Near-Mint - 1975
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Description
Vinyl is Near-Mint - Cover is Very Good Plus to Excellent NOTE: All records are U.S. pressings unless otherwise noted)
Record Grading: SS (Still Sealed), Near-Mint (near perfect), Excellent (Just a few signs that the record has been played keeping it from being NM), Very Good Plus (VG+ = A used, reasonable copy. Will show several signs of play but still perfectly good). Very Good (VG = Record will show quite a bit of signs of play. Will likely have some surface noise, especially at the begining and in quite passages. Should play without skipping or popping). I do not sell records below VG grade unless they are scarce or for the jacket).
NOTES: For his third album, Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs. It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the first time, humorously with Waits' late-night world of bars and diners. The love lyrics of his debut album had long since given way to a comic lonely-guy stance glimpsed in "Emotional Weather Report" and "Better Off Without a Wife." But what really matters is the elaborate scene-setting of songs like the six-and-a-half-minute "Spare Parts," the seven-and-a-half-minute "Putnam County," and especially the 11-and-a-half-minute "Nighthawk Postcards" that are essentially poetry recitations with jazz backing. Waits is a colorful tour guide of midnight L.A., raving over a swinging rhythm section of Jim Hughart (bass) and Bill Goodwin (drums), with Pete Christlieb wailing away on tenor sax between paragraphs and Mike Melvoin trading off with Waits on piano runs. You could call it overdone, but then, this kind of material made its impact through an accumulation of miscellaneous detail, and who's to say how much is too much?
Shipping Info
All orders are processed and shipped within 2 business days of receipt. I package and ship my vinyl records with the greatest care, using extra-thick packaging and the vinyl is taken out of the jacket to prevent seam splits. Lps are shipped in poly sleeves as well.
USPS Media Mail LP Only Shipments $4.25 for 1st LP + $1 each additional LP Mixed Shipments $4.25 for 1st LP + $1 each additional LP / $0.25 each additional 45 International Shipments Air Mail LP Only Shipments $16 for 1st LP + $6 each additional LP 45 Only Shipments $9.00 for 1st 45 + $1.00each additional 45 Mixed Shipments $16 for 1st LP + $6 each additional LP / $1.00 each additional 45
Note: Double LPs, box sets, etc. will incur additional shipping costs as indicated above.
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