Step Right Up (LP Version) (2001)

Artist: Tom Waits
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Release Date: 10/23/2001
Label:  Rhino/Elektra
UPC: 00081227835125
Buy.com Sku: 201651874

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano); Bette Midler (vocals); Roland Bautista (electric & 12-string guitars); Alvin "Shine" Robinson, Peter Klimes, Ray Crawford (guitar); Murray Adler, Israel Baker, Harry Bluestone, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Marvin Limonick, Alfred Lustgarten, Nathan Ross, Sheldon Sanov (violin); Sam Boghossian, Allan Harshman, David Schwartz (viola); Jesse Ehrlich, Ray Kelley, Ed Lustgarten, Kathleen Lustgarten (cello); Plas Johnson (tenor & baritone saxophones); Frank Vicari, Pete Christlieb, Herbert Hardesty, Lew Tabackin (tenor saxophone); Jack Sheldon (trumpet); Harold Batiste, Ronny Barron (piano); Mike Melvoin, DaWillie Gonga (electric piano); Charles Kynard (organ); Victor Feldman (keyboards, glockenspiel, percussion); Greg Cohen, Bill Plummer, Scott Edwards, Jim Hughart, Larry Taylor (bass); John Seiter (drums, background vocals); Chip White, John Thomassie, Bill Goodwin, Earl Palmer, Shelly Manne (drums).
Engineers include: Richie Moore, Bones Howe, Geoff Howe.
Includes liner notes by Charles Schwab, Hal Wilner, Jon Landau.
Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch, Bill Inglot (Digiprep).
While Tom Waits would come to be best known for the innovative work that followed his stylistic reinvention/deconstruction in the 1980s, that material could not have existed without the groundwork he laid down throughout his Elektra tenure of the '70s. During this period, he mastered the songwriting craft while working a Hoagy Carmichael-meets-Jack Kerouac persona that made him one of the most memorable, idiosyncratic characters of the '70s singer/songwriter crop. While peers were plucking gentle acoustic guitars and singing sweetly of tender feelings, Waits was drunkenly pounding a barroom piano, howling in a Wolfman Jack-sings-the-blues voice about the seedy underbelly of the American Dream. His musical language was rooted solidly in jazz, blues, and the Great American Songbook, while his lyrical bent showed he'd spent as much time absorbing Charles Bukowski as he had internalizing Ira Gershwin. USED SONGS covers this vital period of Waits's career in a concise manner, from the down-and-out saloon songs to the dreamy, jazz-tinged reveries and bluesy stompers.

Producer: Jerry Yester; Bones Howe

Musical Guests
Bette Midler

 
Artist Overview
Tom Waits started out in the early 1970s as a piano-based barroom balladeer with a penchant for beat poetry and West Coast jazz. By the late '80s he had mutated into a brilliantly adventurous artist whose style suggested an amalgam of Howlin' Wolf, Kurt Weill, and Captain Beefheart. Ever the theatrical figure, Waits also found success as an actor in several films. He's also worked on numerous theatrical/musical projects with avant-garde theater king Robert Wilson. Though generally regarded as a cult artist, he's widely respected, and everyone from Rod Stewart to the Eagles to the Ramones has covered his songs.

Artist Influences
Bob Dylan
Captain Beefheart
Charles Brown
Charles Bukowski
Hoagy Carmichael
Howlin' Wolf
Jack Kerouac
Kurt Weill
Memphis Slim
Mose Allison
Muddy Waters
Randy Newman
Thelonious Monk

Artist Contemporaries
Bruce Springsteen
Chuck E. Weiss
John Prine
Keith Richards
Leonard Cohen
Lou Reed
Loudon Wainwright III
Marc Ribot
Marianne Faithfull
Patti Smith
Ralph Carney
Rickie Lee Jones
The Lounge Lizards
Warren Zevon

Artist Followers
Calexico
Dave Alvin
Elvis Costello
Frank Tedesso
Gallon Drunk
Giant Sand
Jim Allen (Singer/Songwriter)
Johnny Dowd
Los Lobos
Men & Volts
Nick Cave
Opal Foxx Quartet
Richard Julian
Thin White Rope
Victoria Williams
 

Technical Info
Release Date : 10/23/2001
Original Release Date : 2001
Catalog ID : 78351
Label : Elektra Entertainment
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00081227835125

 
Professional Reviews
Q (12/01, p.166)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Wait's most romantic material..."

Uncut (12/01, p.122)
- 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "...A fine starting point for a long, strange trip..."

 
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