Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (Remastered)

Vinyl 180g, Lp, Remastered from Original Master Tape | Label: Ims-Island | Year of Release 2023 | Genre: Experimental Rock | 19 Tracks

ARTIST: Tom Waits

ALBUM: Rain Dogs (Remastered)

LABEL: Ims-Island

FORMAT: Vinile, Lp, Remastered

RELEASE DATE: 22/09/2023

FIRST PUBLICATION DATE: 30/09/1985

GENRE: Rock Sperimentale

TRACKS:

Side A

1. "Singapore" 2:46
2. "Clap Hands" 3:47
3. "Cemetery Polka" 1:51
4. "Jockey Full of Bourbon" 2:45
5. "Tango Till They're Sore" 2:49
6. "Big Black Mariah" 2:44
7. "Diamonds & Gold" 2:31
8. "Hang Down Your Head" 2:32
9. "Time"

Side B

1. "Rain Dogs" 2:56
2. "Midtown" (instrumental) 1:00
3. "9th & Hennepin" 1:58
4. "Gun Street Girl" 4:37
5. "Union Square" 2:24
6. "Blind Love" 4:18
7. "Walking Spanish" 3:05
8. "Downtown Train" 3:53
9. "Bride of Rain Dog" (instrumental) 1:07
10. "Anywhere I Lay My Head"

FORMATION

Tom Waits – vocals (1–10, 12–17, 19), guitar (2, 4, 6, 8–10, 15–17), organ (3, 19), piano (5, 12), harmonium (8, 18), banjo (13)

Musicians

Michael Blair – percussion (1–4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17), marimba (2, 7, 10, 12), drums (8, 14, 18), congas (4), bowed saw (12), parade drum (19)
Stephen Hodges – drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16), parade drum (3)
Larry Taylor – double bass (1, 3, 4, 6, 8–10, 15), bass (7, 11, 14, 16)
Marc Ribot – guitar (1–4, 7, 8, 10)
"Hollywood" Paul Litteral – trumpet (1, 11, 19)
Bobby Previte – percussion (2), marimba (2)
William Schimmel – accordion (3, 9, 10)
Bob Funk – trombone (1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 19)
Ralph Carney – baritone saxophone (4, 14), saxophone (11, 18), clarinet (12)
Greg Cohen – double bass (5, 12, 13)
Chris Spedding – guitar (1)
Tony Garnier – double bass (2)
Keith Richards – guitar (6, 14, 15), backing vocals (15)
Robert Musso – banjo (7)
Arno Hecht – tenor saxophone (11, 19)

"Considered the most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits embarked on with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the central part of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first Waits album to have been written in New York, in a basement in Lower Manhattan. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a sort of mutant musical 'Canterbury Tales' of the late 20th century, with a shape-shifting band. Personally edited by Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan, Waits' albums released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993 have been remastered from the original tapes and will be reissued on vinyl and CD by Island/Universal Music.
Swordfishtrombones (1983), Waits' revolutionary creative breakthrough, its superb sequel Rain Dogs (1985) and the theatrical musical that completes the trilogy, Franks Wild Years (1987), will kick off the series on 1 September, exactly 40 years after the release of Swordfishtrombones, the album that ushered in a new musical era for Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan, who also became writing and production partners.
All albums were mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits' sound engineer Karl Derfler. The master of Swordfishtrombones comes from the original EQ'ed ½‘ production master while Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine and The Black Rider come from the original ½’ flat master tapes. Bellman meticulously processed the tapes and then remastered the audio in high resolution 192 kHz/24 bit.
The vinyl cutting for all the albums was done by Alex Abrash. The new VINYL and CD editions with DIGISLEEVE packaging will have specially designed unreleased labels featuring photos of Waits from those years as well as artwork and packaging carefully recreated to replicate the original LPs.’
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