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by Paul-Newell Reaves

The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits
1974

Tom Waits is hitting the town tonight, held upright by a lounge piano, a stand-up bass and jazzy drums.  ‘Cause the second release of his career is a boozy, gravelly-voiced pub crawl across San Diego, from the docks to the pool halls to the bus depot, ending up moon-gazing from a late night pizza joint.

 And as the concept album drunkenly stumbles about the nightspots, it questions what exactly the thrill of a Saturday night is, what is the appeal, what the result— who goes looking for it, anyway— and why do so in the first place.  Some of these questions are answered, some not, resulting in an album of profound longing for something just beyond reach. [read more…]

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