Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Available On:LP hungry record by an artist

hungry record by an artist who is resolved to bite down on life

See them all in action in the booklet with some great photos and a collection of memorabilia that includes posters

returning home after a gig a Glossop Folk Festival in February 1982 he was involved in a serious traffic accident that left Nic in intensive care and hospitalised for some eight months

with a chorus composed entirely of la's

but it flourishes with a decade's worth of songwriting discipline and chemistry

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Available On:LP hungry record by an artistBetween the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low pitched horns, bass instruments,