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Swordfishtrombones
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Length
15 tracks
Release Date
1 January 1983
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 20… read more
Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himsel… read more
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… read more

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1 Play track Underground
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 1:58 174,356 listeners
2 Play track Shore Leave
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 5:06 128,869 listeners
3 Play track Dave The Butcher (Instrumental)
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 2:15 3,958 listeners
4 Play track Johnsburg, Illinois
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 1:33 125,919 listeners
5 Play track 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
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 4:29 42,143 listeners
6 Play track Town With No Cheer
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 4:22 90,494 listeners
7 Play track In the Neighborhood
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8 Play track Just Another Sucker On The Vine (Instrumental)
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 1:42 3,681 listeners
9 Play track Frank's Wild Years
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 1:51 115,706 listeners
10 Play track Swordfishtrombone
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11 Play track Down, Down, Down
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 5:20 97,399 listeners
12 Play track Soldier's Things
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 3:22 108,471 listeners
13 Play track Gin Soaked Boy
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 2:20 92,582 listeners
14 Play track Trouble's Braids
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15 Play track Rainbirds (Instrumental)
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 3:05 3,918 listeners

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Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle Waits was unable to make a living from his music in the 70s because his classical bar music, based in… read more
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a … read more
Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Ini… read more

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