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"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" (commonly known as "Tom Traubert's Blues" or "Waltzing Matilda") is a song by American musician Tom Waits. It is the opening track on Waits' fourth studio album Small Change , released in September 1976 on Asylum Records .
The music, for the most part, consists of Waits' gravelly, rough voice, set against a backdrop of piano, upright bass, drums and saxophone. Some tracks have a string section, whose sweet timbre is starkly contrasted to Waits' voice. "Tom Traubert's Blues" opens the album. Jay S. Jacobs has described the song as a "stunning opener [which] sets ...
Arguably his first masterpiece, the album featured exquisite piano ballads such as 'Tom Traubert's Blues' and ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),’ the word-jazz of ‘Pasties and a G-String,’ and the tour-de-force tenor-sax-accompanied hucksterism of ‘Step Right Up.’” [1] He received growing press attention, being profiled in ...
Recorded amidst a stretch of hard touring and hard-drinking, it may be Waits’ booziest album, from the drunken Danish escapades of his signature ballad “Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to ...
Tom Waits - vocals, electric guitar; Ray Crawford - electric guitar; Charles Kynard - organ; Jim Hughart - bass; Chip White - drums; Frank Vicari - tenor sax "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" - 6:35 from Small Change (1976) Tom Waits - vocals, piano; Jim Hughart - bass
Pages in category "Songs written by Tom Waits" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Time (Tom Waits song) Tom Traubert's Blues; W.
Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 5, 1978, on Asylum Records. [1] It was recorded over the course of six sessions from July to August 1978 with producer Bones Howe. Rickie Lee Jones is pictured with Waits on the back cover. [2]
Bad as Me is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 2011, by Anti- Records. [2] The album is known to have been recorded as early as February 2011 [3] and was officially announced for release on August 23, 2011, on Waits' official web site [4] and various social media networks.