Tom Waits is a folk musician and storyteller steeped in blues, jazz and vaudeville. Without major mainstream success, Waits still gained a world-wide cult following, playing anywhere from dive bars to opera and concert halls. Waits believes a performance should be “a spectacle and entertaining”. With his devious sense of humor, his live shows have a touch of unpredictability. Tom Waits has won two Grammys and is in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His distinctive voice landed him on the 2010 list of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers. Waits is also included on their 2015 list of 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
CD 1: Studio City 73 / Folk Scene 1973 / Santa Monica 1973 / Studio City 74
1. Virginia Avenue 2. San Diego Serenade 3. Ol’ 55 4. Semi Suite 5. Fumblin’ With The Blues 6. Rosie 7. Depot, Depot 8. I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You 9. The Heart Of Saturday Night 10. Better Off Without A Wife 11. On A Foggy Night 12. Heart Of Saturday Night 13. Ice Cream Man 14. Big Joe and Phantom 309 15. Friday’s Blues 16. Shiver Me Timbers 17. Diamonds on My Windshield 18. Gettin’ Drunk on the Bottle 19. Semi Suite 20. Drunk On The Moon 21. San Diego Serenade 22. Rosie 23. Fumblin’ With The Blues 24. New Coat Of Paint
CD2: Lee Furr’s Studio 1975
1. Introduction 2. Diamonds on My Windshield 3. Rosie 4. New Coat of Paint 5. Tom Gets Hustled At 9 Ball 6. Better Off Without a Wife 7. Semi Suite 8. On a Foggy Night 9. (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night 10. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) 11. Fumblin’ With the Blues 12. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House) 13. Ice Cream Man 14. Drunk on the Moon 15. Big Joe and Phantom 309 16. Ol’ ’55 17. Nobody 18. Depot, Depot 19. Please Call Me Baby 20. Outro
CD3: Nighthawks In The Studio ’76
1. Emotional Weather Report 2. A Sight for Sore Eyes 3. Step Right Up 4. Invitation to the Blues / Eggs and Sausage 5. Jitterbug Boy 6. Diamonds on My Windshield 7. San Diego Serenade 8. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) 9. New Coat of Paint 10. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) 11. I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)
CD 4: Paradise Theater 1977
1. Standing on the Corner 2. Muriel 3. Invitation to the Blues 4. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) 5. Pasties & A G-String (At the Two O’Clock Club) 6. I Never Talk to Strangers 7. Fumblin’ With the Blues 8. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) 9. Small Change (Got Rained on With His Own .38) 10. I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) 11. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell) 12. Step Right Up 13. San Diego Serenade 14. A Sight for Sore Eyes 15. Big Joe and Phantom 309
CD 5: Studio City ’75 / Austin 1978
1. Nobody 2. On a Foggy Night 3. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House) 4. Fumblin’ With the Blues 5. Better Off Without a Wife 6. Drunk on the Moon 7. Big Joe and Phantom 309 8. Burma Shave 9. Annie’s Back In Town / I Wish I Was In New Orleans 10. A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun 11. On The Nickel 12. Romeo Is Bleeding 13. Silent Night / Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis 14. Small Change
