Small Change

Small Change

by Tom Waits
Small Change

Small Change

by Tom Waits

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Overview

The fourth release in Tom Waits' series of skid row travelogues, Small Change proves to be the archetypal album of his '70s work. A jazz trio comprising tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, plus an occasional string section, back Waits and his piano on songs steeped in whiskey and atmosphere in which he alternately sings in his broken-beaned drunk's voice (now deeper and overtly influenced by Louis Armstrong) and recites jazzy poetry. It's as if Waits were determined to combine the Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson characters from Casablanca with a dash of On the Road's Dean Moriarty to illuminate a dark world of bars and all-night diners. Of course, he'd been in that world before, but in songs like "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart," Waits gives it its clearest expression. Small Change isn't his best album. Like most of the albums Waits made in the '70s, it's uneven, probably because he was putting out one a year and didn't have time to come up with enough first-rate material. But it is the most obvious and characteristic of his albums for Asylum Records. If you like it, you also will like the ones before and after; otherwise, you're not Tom Waits' kind of listener. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 03/23/2018
Label: Anti-
UPC: 0045778756827
Rank: 23062

Tracks

  1. Tom Traubert's Blues
  2. Step Right Up
  3. Jitterbug Boy
  4. I Wish I Was in New Orleans
  5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
  6. Invitation to the Blues
  7. Pasties and a G-String
  8. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
  9. The One That Got Away
  10. Small Change
  11. I Can't Wait to Get Off Work

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tom Waits   Primary Artist,Piano,Guitar,Vocals
Shelly Manne   Guest Artist,Drums
Jesse Ehrlich   Cello
Israel Baker   Violin
Allan Harshman   Viola
David Schwartz   Viola
Ed Lustgarten   Cello
Lew Tabackin   Saxophone,Sax (Tenor)
Samuel Boghossian   Viola
George Kast   Violin
Kathleen Lustgarten   Cello
Nathan Ross   Violin
Harry Bluestone   Violin
Jerry Yester   Conductor
Jim Hughart   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Nathan Kaproff   Violin
Ray Kelley   Cello
Alfred Lustgarten   Violin
Murray Adler   Violin
Sam Bohossian   Viola
Kathleen Lustgarter   Cello
Marvin Limonick   Violin
Sam Boghossian   Viola
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Sheldon Sanov   Violin

Technical Credits

Bones Howe   Engineer,Producer
Terry Dunavan   Mastering
Tom Waits   Composer,Lyricist
Jerry Yester   Arranger,String Arrangements
Joel Brodsky   Photography
Stephen Innocenzi   Mastering
Geoff Howe   Engineer
Bruce Weber   Photography
Cal Schenkel   Design
Bill Broms   Engineer
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