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Yet while his hard-drinking lifestyle threatened to catch up with him in the mid-tolate 70s, Waits was always at the top of his game as a performer, as the two TV
specials included on The Austin Broadcast 1978 & the 1976 European Broadcast
make clear.The frst, recorded for an Austin City Limits TV special just months
after the release of his sixth studio album, Blue Valentine, plays like a fever dream
from a smoky jazz club, Waits delivering the Great American Songbook classic
Summertime alongside some of his fnest narrative songs, including Christmas
Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis and Small Change.The performance flmed in
a TV studio in Denmark, on 1 June 1976, fnds the fast-developing talent honing
his stagecraft. Bonus Track The Piano Has Been Drinking, recorded in 1977,
captures that talent exploding in hilarious wordplay.
Tracklist
Intro
Summertime
Burma Shave
Annie's Back in Town
I Wish I Was in New Orleans
A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
On the Nickel
Romeo Is Bleeding
Silent Night
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Small Change
Elephant Beer Blues
New Coat of Paint
Warm Beer and Cold Women
Emotional Weather Report
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
Semi Suite
Spare Parts