Tom Waits – The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974)

01 - New Coat Of Paint 
02 - San Diego Serenade 
03 - Semi Suite 
04 - Shiver Me Timbers 
05 - Diamonds On My Windshield 
06 - (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night 
07 - Fumblin' With The Blues 
08 - Please Call Me, Baby 
09 - Depot, Depot 
10 - Drunk On The Moon 
11 - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At ...)

Gene Cipriano 	Clarinet
Bones Howe 	Percussion, Producer
Jim Hughart 	Bass
Shelly Manne 	Drums
Jack Sheldon 	Trumpet
Frank Vicari 	Sax (Tenor)
Tom Waits         Composer, Guitar, Piano, Vocals 

If Closing Time, Tom Waits' debut album, consisted of love songs set in a late-night world of bars and neon signs, its follow-up, The Heart of Saturday Night, largely dispenses with the romance in favor of poetic depictions of the same setting. On "Diamonds on My Windshield" and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night," Waits doesn't even sing, instead reciting his verse rhythmically against bass and drums like a Beat hipster. Musically, the album contains the same mixture of folk, blues, and jazz as its predecessor, with producer Bones Howe occasionally bringing in an orchestra to underscore the loping melodies. Waits' songs are sometimes sketchier in addition to being more impersonal, but "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" and "Semi Suite" are the equal of anything on Closing Time. Still, with lines such as "...the clouds are like headlines/Upon a new front page sky" and references to "a 24-hour moon" and "champagne stars," Waits' imagery is beginning to get florid, and in material this stylized, the danger of self-parody is always present. ---William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Review

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