Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks debuts some of Waits' greatest classics with a crack Jazz band backing him up and some of the greatest stage patter ever committed to record.
B-SIDES & RARITIES PART II was compiled by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and features 27 tracks from Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! in 2006 to 2019s Ghosteen. Also features 19 rare and unreleased tracks including first recordings of "Skeleton Tree, " "Girl in Amber, " "
The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, originally released in 1974. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The album cover is based on In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra.
Featuring Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Bill Frisell, Ralph Steadman, Annie Ross, John Joyce III, Will Forte and many more score and stage Hunter S. Thompson's classic coverage of the 1970 Kentucky Derby.
In true, stream-of-consciousness, Beat fashion, the entire album was cut in one session with one take for each track, Allen's piano weaving in and out and occasionally commenting on Kerouac's verbal riffs to great effect.
Poetry for the Beat Generation, legendary beatnik writer Jack Kerouac's second album, Blues and Haikus, teamed him with producer Bob Thiele and came out on Thiele's Hanover label in 1959.