Tom Waits Heartattack And Vine (Remastered)

Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, piano); Roland Bautista (guitar); Plas Johnson (tenor & baritone saxophones); Michael Lang (piano); Ronnie Barron (organ); Larry Taylor, Greg Cohen (bass); "Big John" Thomassie (drums); Victor Feldman (percussion).Recorded at Filmways/Heider Studio, Hollywood, California between June 16 & July 15, 1980.Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits' seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it's transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978's excellent Blue Valentine and 1977's Foreign Affairs, he was already messing with off-kilter rhythms even in the most conventionally structured blues and jazz songs, with nastier-sounding guitars -- he plays a particularly gnarly style of rhythm on this entire album. Five of these nine tracks are rooted in gutbucket blues with rock edges and primal R&B beats. By this time, his singing voice had deteriorated to a gasping-for-breath whiskey-and-cigarettes growl that could make words indeciph