Blue Valentine

Infobox Album | Name = Blue Valentine
Type = Album
Artist = Tom Waits


Released = September 1978
Recorded = July 24-August 26 1978
Genre = Blues-Rock
Length = 49:09
Label = Asylum
Producer = Bones Howe
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1jnsa9qgb23g link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Waits link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tomwaits/albums/album/232761/review/5943298/blue_valentine link]
Last album = "Foreign Affairs"
(1977)
This album = "Blue Valentine"
(1978)
Next album = "Heartattack and Vine"
(1980)

"Blue Valentine" is an album by Tom Waits, first released in 1978 on Elektra Entertainment. The woman pictured with Waits on the back cover is Rickie Lee Jones, another singer/songwriter with whom he was having a relationship at the time (she also appears with Waits on the cover of his album "Foreign Affairs", released a year prior.) This album peaked on the Australian charts in late 1978 at #42.

Track listing

All tracks written by Tom Waits, except where noted.

# "Somewhere (from "West Side Story")" (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim) – 3:53
# "Red Shoes By The Drugstore" – 3:14
#*Tom Waits - Vocal
#*Da Willie Gonga (George Duke) - Yamaha Electric Piano
#*Rick Lawson - Drums
#*Roland Bautista - Electric Guitar
#*Byron Miller - Bass
# "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" – 4:33
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Acoustic Piano
#*Da Willie Gonga (George Duke) - Yamaha Electric Grand Piano
# "Romeo Is Bleeding" – 4:52
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Frank Vicari - Tenor Saxophone
#*Ray Crawford - Electric Guitar
#*Charles Kynard - Organ
#*Jim Hughart - Bass
#*Chip White - Drums
#*Bobbye Hall - Congas
# "$29.00" – 8:15
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Da Willie Gonga (George Duke) - Yamaha Electric Grand Piano
#*Roland Bautista - Electric Guitar
#*Byron Miller - Bass
#*Rick Lawson - Drums
# "Wrong Side Of The Road" – 5:14
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Charles Kynard - Organ
#*Frank Vicari - Tenor Saxophone
#*Ray Crawford - Electric Guitar
#*Jim Hughart - Bass
#*Chip White - Drums
# "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" – 3:17
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Harold Battiste - Piano
#*"Shine" Robinson - Electric Guitar
#*Herbert Hardesty - Tenor Saxophone
#*Scott Edwards - Bass
#*Earl Palmer - Drums
# "Kentucky Avenue" – 4:49
#*Orchestra Arranged & Conducted by Bob Alcivar
#*Vocal & Piano - Tom Waits
# "Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun" – 5:36
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Herbert Hardesty - Tenor Saxophone
#*"Shine" Robinson - Electric Guitar
#*Harold Battiste - Piano
#*Scott Edwards - Bass
#*Earl Palmer - Drums
# "Blue Valentines" – 5:49
#*Tom Waits - Vocal & Electric Guitar
#*Ray Crawford - Electric Guitar Solo

Musicians

* Vocals - Tom Waits
* Electric Guitar - Tom Waits, Ray Crawford, Roland Bautista, "Shine" Robinson
* Bass - Scott Edwards, Jim Hughart, Byron Miller
* Piano - Da Willie Gonga (George Duke), Harold Battiste, Tom Waits
* Organ - Charles Kynard
* Tenor Sax - Herbert Hardesty, Frank Vicari
* Drums - Rick Lawson, Earl Palmer, Chip White
* Orchestra - Bob Alcivar