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Tom Waits - Emotional Weather Forecast
Another week, another three tunes and this week, it's another Tom Waits album, his third one, released in October 1975. It's another live album from the eclectic eccentric original Tom Waits.
I'm enjoying staying on one artist and a specific album each week, giving me a chance to dip back into some great albums, which I listen to a few times ahead of my selection of tunes each week.
We'll start things off with Emotional Weather Forecast.
Tom Waits - Eggs and Sausage
Tom Waits is one worth heading down a rabbit hole for folks. So much good music.
For this third studio album, Waits didn’t want to record a typical studio album. Instead, he decided to turn the studio itself into a small, smoky nightclub of sorts.
Hear me out.... So he and the producer I guess brought in tables, chairs, candles, ashtrays, the works... They then invited in around fifty people. They weren't randoms, but rather a mix of artist friends and record comapnay execs.
They recorded the album over two nights at the Record Plant in Los Angeles in July 1975. The audience was told to treat it like a live show at a jazz club. That comes across with the story telling, laughing and clapping.
The result is a live-in-the-studio performance, full of banter, improvisation, and atmosphere. You can literally hear Waits chatting with the crowd, which is endearing and enduring.
Right have a listen to this one.
Tom Waits - Warm Beer and Cold Women
Track number ten on this album is Warm Beer and Cold Women. This romantic and melancholy song almost didn’t exist by the way!
After some searching on line about this album and songs, I learned that Waits apparently wrote “Warm Beer and Cold Women” late the night before the session, sitting in a diner on Santa Monica Boulevard after a gig. He was nursing a cup of coffee, scribbling lyrics on a napkin about loneliness and the kind of women who haunt empty bars after midnight.
He showed up at the studio the next day, napkin in pocket, and played it for the band during soundcheck. They worked out an arrangement on the spot — the version you hear on the album is basically their first full take.
I bloody love that!
Although what works in the Arts, doesn't work in every industry. I've seen botched ideas in tech that seem to have been written on the back of a bar mat that would make you laugh, but let's not get into that, let's instead listen to the beat poetry style and jazz storytelling of Mr. Tom Waits on Warm Beer and Cold Women
Three Tune Tuesday
That's right, it's Tuesday folks and for our merry little band of ladies and lads, that means sharing tunes, good vibes and engagement. As another week disappears in the rearview mirror, we have loads of engagement and tunes flying around on Three Tune Tuesday and sure isn't that bloody fantastic! I hope you're ready to share three tunes from wherever you find yourself on this magical spinning lump of rock that we all call home and sure you might even sing us a tune if we're lucky?
It's a time of the week when lovers of music, tunes and craic bring their blockchain community three of their finest and brightest tunes to share and celebrate, so let's roll on and let the tunes flow free.
This is my 229th week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday and we are still going strong.
It started off with me just sharing tunes into what seemed like a void, but little by little others joined and now I'm thrilled that we have a little corner of Hive where we come and share our tunes every Tuesday, and long may it continue. I almost stopped posting the songs and thoughts a few times, but I stuck with it and now interestingly it is my favorite thing about Hive. I love music and now I have a network of folks around the world who love music too and we share our tunes and catch up with each others tunes and discuss them each week. We get Pop, Metal, Rock, Gospel, Folk, Jazz, Rap, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Reggae, Bippy bappidy Flange Hop. Ok I made that one up, but you get the idea, we are all learning about new artists, bands, back stories and sure isn't it just mighty!
Something that excites me the most is that we even get musicians sharing their covers of famous songs and even their own songs from time to time here on #ThreeTuneTuesday, which is a real favorite of mine, as that takes talent, time and dedication.
We are adding New posters and retaining our core of regulars here on #TTT which is fantastic. Let's keep it growing. Over the years, I have listened to fantastic music shared from like-minded folk from around the globe and interacted with their posts. This has led me to genres I don't know well and to some amazing new bands and artists and has even introduced me to some musical instruments I did not know existed. It also allows me to upvote smaller accounts and find some really interesting people from all over the world, which is heartening.
I hope you enjoy the tunes - be sure to tell me all about it in the comments below and above all else, please enjoy the rest of your Tuesday - smile at a stranger, rub a dog, be a nice human to someone who was not expecting it - peace out.
For those unfamiliar with TTT or Three Tune Tuesday....
The jist is as follows
Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Better still, why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and upvote it. If you could also use #threetunetuesday tag that would be great, as that is what I use when sifting through all the entries every Wednesday. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music. You'll also be in with a chance of winning the prize - more on that later.
HBI contest - win up to 6HBI
Share your Three Tune Tuesday songs below or create a post with #ttt or #threetunetuesday and mention me so I can find the post.
I'll pick the three songs I enjoyed the most each week as the winner and transfer 1 share of HBI to the winner when this post pays out 7 days from now, but wait there's more...
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We have a sponsor list of six people who selflessly offer HBI in addition to my one. They are as follows @tengolotodo @bozz @coquicoin @ablaze @seki1 @inthenow
Due to a very busy life on my side, the winner posts often come after a delay and may come over 4 to 8 consecutive days. That's just how I do it, so please be patient while awaiting HBI and understand that only my 1HBI is guaranteed. The others are dependant on our lovely sponsors seeing these posts and sending on the HBI. That means some weeks winners may get 3 shares and other weeks they may get more.
Thanks a million to our sponsors above once again and any winners please bear in mind that some people only pop on here every few months, so be patient while waiting for the HBI.
Sin é, That's all folks, thanks for stopping by.
That's it for another week. Those are your three songs for this week. Let me know what you think - good, bad or indifferent? Did you like them all or just one or two?
Also, as I said before, I love getting good steers for new tunes, so please tell me about the latest and greatest from your playlist below and I'll be sure to check em out.
The YouTube videos shared are not owned by me and I am simply sharing great music with the community here on Hive
Thanks as always for stopping by everyone and a big shout out to @stickupcurator whose continued generous support to #ttt is noticed and truly appreciated - thanks gents.
Peace Out
