Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: SWORDFISHTROMBONES (CD)

Year: 1983
Media type: CD

Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work.

Stylistically different from his previous LPs, Swordfishtrombones moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late seventies replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting approach.

Swordfishtrombones peaked at #164 on Billboard's Pop Albums and Billboard 200 albums chart.

In 1989, Spin Magazine named Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all time.

All tracks written by Tom Waits.

TRACKLIST:

Side One
1. "Underground" 1:58
2. "Shore Leave" 4:12
3. "Dave the Butcher" (Instrumental) 2:15
4. "Johnsburg, Illinois" 1:30
5. "16 Shells from a 30.6" 4:30
6. "Town with No Cheer" 4:22

Side Two
1. "In the Neighborhood" 3:04
2. "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" (Instrumental) 1:42
3. "Frank's Wild Years" 1:50
4. "Swordfishtrombone" 3:00
5. "Down, Down, Down" 2:10
6. "Soldier's Things" 3:15
7. "Gin Soaked Boy" 2:20
8. "Trouble's Braids" 1:18
9. "Rainbirds" (Instrumental) 3:05


LINE-UP:

Tom Waits - Vocal (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), Chair (2), Hammond B-3 Organ (3), Piano (4, 15), Harmonium (6, 8), Synthesizer (6), Freedom Bell (6)
Victor Feldman - Bass Marimba (1, 2), Marimba (2,10), Shaker (2), Bass Drum with Rice (2), Bass Boo Bams (3), Brake Drum (5), Bell Plate (5), Snare (5, 11), Hammond B-3 Organ (7), Snaredrum (7), Bells (7), Conga (10), Bass Drum (10), Dabuki Drum (10), Tambourine (11), African Talking Drum (14)
Larry Taylor - Acoustic Bass (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14), Electric Bass (10)
Randy Aldcroft - Baritone Horn (1, 7), Trombone (2)
Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges - Drums (1, 2, 5, 11, 13), Parade Drum (7), Cymbals (7), Parade Bass Drum (14), Glass Harmonica (15)
Fred Tackett - Electric Guitar (1, 5, 13), Banjo Guitar (2)
Francis Thumm - Metal Aunglongs (2), Glass Harmonica (15)
Greg Cohen - Bass (4), Acoustic Bass (10, 12, 15)
Joe Romano - Trombone (5), Trumpet (8)
Anthony Clark Stewart - Bagpipes (6)
Clark Spangler - Synthesizer Program (6)
Bill Reichenbach - Trombone (7)
Dick (Slyde) Hyde - Trombone (7)
Ronnie Barron - Hammond Organ (9)
Eric Bikales - Organ (11)
Carlos Guitarlos - Electric Guitar (11)
Richard Gibbs - Glass Harmonica (15)