Tom Waits - Rain Dogs - LP

180 Gram Black Vinyl, Newly Remastered & Restored Packaging

Often noted as Tom Waits' most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones, forming the middle of a de facto trilogy with that album and Frank's Wild Years. A 53-minute, 19-track monster written in a Lower Manhattan basement, it plays like a mutant, late 20th-century musical "Canterbury Tales" with a shape-shifting band of banjos, marimbas, bowed saw, parade drum and howling horns (plus Keith Richards and Marc Ribot). Waits coined the term "rain dog" for dogs who lose their way when familiar scents are washed away in storms. Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, newly remastered for the first time from the original 1/2" flat master tape, personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

Features

• 180-gram black vinyl
• Newly remastered from the original 1/2" flat master tape; mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; restored album packaging
• Label: Island Records / UMe

Track Listing

1. Singapore
2. Clap Hands
3. Cemetery Polka
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
5. Tango Till They're Sore
6. Big Black Mariah
7. Diamonds and Gold
8. Hang Down Your Head
9. Time
10. Rain Dogs
11. Midtown
12. 9th & Hennepin
13. Gun Street Girl
14. Union Square
15. Blind Love
16. Walking Spanish
17. Downtown Train
18. Bride of Rain Dog
19. Anywhere I Lay My Head