Blue Valentine

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艺人: Tom Waits
语种: 英语
厂牌: Asylum Records
发行时间: 1978年09月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

1978 Tom Waits发表专辑《Blue Valentine》，带来两个小小的变化：开始使用电吉他和键盘，并增加了更多布鲁斯化的弦乐；歌词中的“我”不再是指向歌手本人，而是一个虚构的概念化人物，尽管“我”多半还是个趴在酒吧高脚凳上的酒鬼。而这为Tom Waits以后的音乐转变埋下了伏笔。有趣的是，这回他是和Rickie Lee Jones一起出现在封底上的。

Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by American rock musician Tom Waits, released in September 1978 on Asylum Records. The album was recorded over the course of six sessions from July to August 1978 with producer Bones Howe.

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. This album peaked on the Australian charts in late 1978 at #42.

Two welcome changes in style made Blue Valentine a fresh listening experience for Tom Waits fans. First, Waits alters the instrumentation, bringing in electric guitar and keyboards and largely dispensing with the strings for a more blues-oriented, hard-edged sound. Second, though his world view remains fixed on the lowlifes of the late night, he expands beyond the musings of the barstool philosopher who previously had acted as the first-person character of most of his songs. When Waits does use the first-person, it's to write a "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis," not the figure most listeners had associated with the singer himself. The result is a broadening of subject matter, a narrative discipline that makes most of the tunes story songs, and a coherent framing for Waits' typically colorful and intriguing imagery. These are not radical reinventions, but Waits had followed such a rigidly stylized approach on his previous albums that for anyone who had followed him so far, the course correction was big news.

Blue Valentine

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