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Two welcome changes in style made Blue Valentine a fresh listening experience for Tom Waits fans. First, Waits alters the instrumentation, bringing in electric guitar and keyboards and largely dispensing with the strings for a more blues-oriented, hard-edged sound. Second, though his world view remains fixed on the lowlifes of the late night, he expands beyond the musings of the barstool philosopher who previously had acted as the first-person character of most of his songs. When Waits does use the first-person, it's to write a "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis," not the figure most listeners had associated with
| 1 | Somewhere [From West Side Story] | ♡ | 3:53 | Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim | |
| 2 | Red Shoes by the Drugstore | ♡ | 3:15 | Tom Waits | |
| 3 | Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis | ♡ | 4:33 | Tom Waits | |
| 4 | Romeo Is Bleeding | ♡ | 4:52 | Tom Waits | |
| 5 | $29.00 | ♡ | 8:16 | Tom Waits | |
| 6 | Wrong Side of the Road | ♡ | 5:14 | Tom Waits | |
| 7 | Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard | ♡ | 3:18 | Tom Waits | |
| 8 | Kentucky Avenue | ♡ | 4:49 | Tom Waits / Bob Alcivar | |
| 9 | A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun | ♡ | 5:37 | Tom Waits | |
| 10 | Blue Valentines | ❤ | 5:50 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits / Ray Crawford |
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- AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/album/MW0000203442
Credits
Engineer — Geoff Howe, Ralph Osborn, Bones Howe Mastered By — Terry Dunavan Other — Rickie Lee Jones Producer — Bones Howe Typography — Bill Franks Written-By — Tom Waits
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