Tom Waits' Sophomore Album The Heart of Saturday Night Reissued for Its 50th Anniversary on 180g Colored LP.

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Tom Waits' sophomore album will be repressed on 180g colored vinyl to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Rolling Stone included this 1974 LP in their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in admiration of it's bewitching blend of after-hours hipster jazz, ageless acoustic-piano songs and intimate introductions to the lonely "Ghosts of Saturday Night." the song of that title joins "New Coat of Paint," "Shiver Me Timbers," "Diamonds on My Windshield," "(Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night," "Semi Suite," and more of his early best!

Expanding beyond the folk and pop stylings of his first album, Waits' second studio release The Heart of Saturday Night established his reputation as a versatile and distinctly American songwriter. Its bluesy jazz arrangements featured bass, drums, sax and Waits on piano. The title track, a melancholy ode to Saturday night rituals, and the tenderly romantic hymn-like "San Diego Serenade" are enduring classics covered by an array of artists from Diana Krall and Nancy Griffith to folk hero Eric Anderson and Dion. The album also features "Diamonds on My Windshield," the first of what would become a signature for Waits, the spoken word-poetry song. Waits delivers these lyrics as pure beat jazz in the styings of Kerouac, Langston Hughes and Bob Kaufman.