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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.
"Tom Traubert's Blues" opens the album. Jay S. Jacobs has described the song as a "stunning opener [which] sets the tone for what follows." [4] The refrain is based almost word by word on the 1890 Australian song, "Waltzing Matilda" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson, although the tune is slightly different. The origin of the song is somewhat ambiguous.
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 ...
"Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music ... Tom Waits' 1976 song "Tom Traubert's Blues" incorporates elements of ...
"Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)" – 4:40 (studio version previously released on Lead Vocalist) "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Cat Stevens) – 4:12 (studio version previously released on A Night on the Town) "Mandolin Wind" (Stewart) – 5:23 (studio version previously released on Every Picture Tells a Story)
Waltzing With Brando doesn't currently have a release date, because it hasn't secured a U.S. distributor yet. However, the film premiered at the Torino Film Festival in November 2024 and will be ...
Anthology of Tom Waits is the first "best of" compilation of Tom Waits recordings, ... "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" ...