Reaction to Tom Waits - Small Change Album Reaction and Review - First Time Hearing!

Reaction to Tom Waits - Small Change Album Reaction and Review - First Time Hearing! is up today and we give our reaction to Tom's full album in a track by track format! This is the first time we have listened to “Small Change”! Our thanks to Patreon supporter Josh who suggested this album to us, be sure to send him some love in the comments below if you enjoyed this review! Check out our Livestreams every Friday at 6pm CST as well as several other times during the week -   / reactionstotheclassics   Support us on Patreon!:   / reactionstotheclassics   - You can support us for as little as $1 a month! Join our Facebook Group!:   / 432430687517673   Join our Discord!:   / discord   Subscribe to our Podcast Here! – Reactions To The Classics Music Podcast Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6LNPbUu... Follow us on Instagram -   / reactionstotheclassics   CHECK OUT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHAT WE USE HERE - Wireless Headphones - https://amzn.to/2LmYvtH Turntable – https://amzn.to/3clfQPD Bookshelf Speakers (cannot beat them for the price!) – https://amzn.to/3fEe9if Join Amazon Prime Music - The Only Music Streaming Service with Free 2-day Shipping - 30-day Free Trial - https://amzn.to/3bpPf2x **Disclaimer: Reactions To The Classics is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to www.amazon.com. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to not miss out on our song reactions, album reviews and livestreams! Quick Facts: • 4th studio album released in 1976. • Recorded, direct to 2-track stereo tape, in July 1976 at the Wally Heider Recording Studio, in Hollywood, under the production of Bones Howe. • Received critical reviews equal to or better than Waits's previous albums, and was at 1st a surprise commercial success, rising to #89 on the Billboard chart within 2 weeks of its release. 3 weeks later, the album fell off the Billboard Top 200, and Waits was not to better its position until 1999's Mule Variations. The album like Waits' previous albums, heavily jazz-influenced, with a lyrical style that owed influence to Raymond Chandler and Charles Bukowski as well as a vocal delivery influenced by Louis Armstrong, Dr. John and Howlin' Wolf. The music, for the most part, consists of Waits' gravelly, rough voice, set against a backdrop of piano, upright bass, drums and saxophone. Some tracks have a string section, whose sweet timbre is starkly contrasted to Waits' voice. At the time of the recording Waits was drinking more and more heavily, and life on the road was starting to take its toll on him. All songs written and composed by Tom Waits. Side one 1. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) - 6:39 - The song's chorus is derived from the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda" and its lyrics narrate alcohol abuse, inspired by Waits' own experiences in LA and Copenhagen. 2. Step Right Up - Tom’s near-spoken word vocal delivery is akin to a manic auctioneer as he repeats line after line of consumerist psychobabble. . 3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie) - A man drunkenly leaning on a lamp post tells a series of increasingly improbable stories about his life. 4. I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward) - One of the album’s most tender and nostalgic ballads. In the song, Waits pays tribute to New Orleans. 5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King) - Waits repeatedly comments and complains about numerous inanimate objects. Great Line - And the light man's blind in one eye, And he can't see out of the other Side two 1. Invitation to the Blues – He is infatuated with a waitress, gives up his bus ticket, going to eat there every night what does he have to lose, imagines she had a sugar daddy etc. 2. Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club) – 3. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell) – Line - And I don't have a drinking problem, Cept when I can't get a drink 4. The One That Got Away – All kinds of stories about the one that got away from a John to a cop. 5. Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38) – Small Change is the name of the guy who got shot probably with his own gun, probably a teen, everyone took his stuff off him after he was shot, each verse starts with him getting shot. 6. I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue) - Has a simple musical arrangement, with only Waits' voice and piano. Faves – Tom Traubert’s Blues, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Invitation to the Blues Overall Score – Trey & Shawn – 7.75/10 #TomWaits #ReactionTomWaits #Small Change #Reactionstotheclassics