Nighthawks at the Diner
Douban
overview
As tour guide on a trip through the midnight-to-dawn streets of Los Angeles that the beautiful people never see through the smoked-glass windows of their limos, Waits details the lives of hipsters, down-and-outers, and lost causes in latter-day beat poetry and small-jazz-combo arrangements. This live album from 1975 almost has the quality of standup comedy, but the routines are richer and more carefully drawn. Check out the vivid detail, low humor, and hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold emotionalism Waits brings to songs such as "Nighthawk Postcards," "Putnam County," and a memorable reading of trucker poet Red Sovine's "Big Joe and Phantom 309." --Daniel Durchholz
tracks
1. "(Opening Intro)" – 2:58
2. "Emotional Weather Report" – 3:47
3. "(Intro)" to "On a Foggy Night" – 2:16
4. "On a Foggy Night" – 3:48
5. "(Intro)" to "Eggs and Sausage" – 1:53
6. "Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)" – 4:19
7. "(Intro)" to "Better Off Without a Wife" – 3:02
8. "Better Off Without a Wife" – 3:59
9. "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" – 11:30
10. "(Intro)" to "Warm Beer and Cold Women" – 0:55
11. "Warm Beer and Cold Women" – 5:21
12. "(Intro)" to "Putnam County" – 0:47
13. "Putnam County" – 7:35
14. "Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)" (Tom Waits/Chuck E. Weiss) – 6:25
15. "Nobody" – 2:51
16. "(Intro)" to "Big Joe and Phantom 309" – 0:40
17. "Big Joe and Phantom 309" (Tommy Faile) – 6:29
18. "Spare Parts II and Closing" – 5:13