Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" Vinyl LP VG+

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Jan 25, 2010 Sold Date

Jan 18, 2010 Start Date

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Canada Country Of Seller

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Description

Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

Label: Island ISL-1065 (Canada 1985)

Quality: Cover: VG++ Record: VG+

Includes original lyric picture inner sleeve (partially split)

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Rain Dogs is the 9th album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in August 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of the trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years.

The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Rolling Stone as merging "Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, [and] the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass, into a singularly idiosyncratic American style." Tha back cover has a photograph of tom waits by Robert Frank.

The album peaked at #188 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time."

Track listing

All songs by Waits, except where noted.

Side One

# Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Singapore" 2:46 2. "Clap Hands" 3:47 3. "Cemetery Polka" 1:51 4. "Jockey Full of Bourbon" 2:45 5. "Tango Till They're Sore" 2:49 6. "Big Black Mariah" 2:44 7. "Diamonds & Gold" 2:31 8. "Hang Down Your Head" Kathleen Brennan, Waits 2:32 9. "Time" 3:55

Side Two

# Title Length 1. "Rain Dogs" 2:56 2. "Midtown" (Instrumental) 1:00 3. "9th & Hennepin" 1:58 4. "Gun Street Girl" 4:37 5. "Union Square" 2:24 6. "Blind Love" 4:18 7. "Walking Spanish" 3:05 8. "Downtown Train" 3:53 9. "Bride of Rain Dog" (Instrumental) 1:07 10. "Anywhere I Lay My Head"

2:48

Personnel

Tom Waits – Vocals (1-10, 12-17, 19), Guitar (2, 4, 6, 8-10, 15-17), Farfisa Organ (3, 19), Piano (5, 12), Pump Organ (8), Banjo (13), Harmonium (18)
Michael Blair - Percussion (1-4, 7, 8, 13, 17), Marimba (2, 7, 10, 12), Congas (4), Drums (8, 14, 18), Metal Percussion (12), Bowed Saw (12), Parade Drum (19)
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges - Drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16), Parade Drums (3)
Larry Taylor - Double Bass (1, 3, 4, 6, 8-10, 15), Bass (7, 11, 14, 16)
Marc Ribot - Guitar (1-4, 7, 8), Lead Guitar (10)
Chris Spedding - Guitar (1)
Hollywood Paul Litteral - Trumpet (1, 11, 19)
Tony Garnier - Double Bass (2)
Robert Previte - Percussion (2), Marimba (2)
William Schimmel - Accordion (3, 9, 10)
Bob Funk - Trombone (3, 5, 10, 11, 19)
Ralph Carney - Baritone Sax (4, 14), Sax (11, 18), Clarinet (12)
Greg Cohen - Double Bass (5, 12, 13)
Keith Richards - Guitar (6, 14, 15), Backing Vocals (15)
Robert Musso - Banjo (7)
Arno Hecht - Tenor Sax (11, 19)
Crispin Cioe - Sax (11, 19)
Robert Quine - Guitar (15, 17)
Ross Levinson - Violins (15)
John Lurie - Alto Sax (16)
G.E. Smith - Guitar (17)
Mickey Curry - Drums (17)
Tony Levin - Bass (17)
Robert Kilgore - Organ (17)

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