Album artwork for Blue Valentine by Tom Waits

Blue Valentine is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits is getting rawer and bluesier and title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwin’s “Somewhere”, and the beautiful piano ballad, “Kentucky Ave.”, but you also get the juke joint swagger of “Romeo Is Bleeding” and “Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard”. This is also the record that contains one of Waits’ most popular songs ever, “Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis”.

Tom Waits

Blue Valentine

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Album artwork for Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
LP

$26.99

Released 02/04/2022Catalog Number

045778757015

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Album artwork for Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
CD

$13.99

Released 03/23/2018Catalog Number

CD 87570

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Tom Waits

Blue Valentine

Anti/Epitaph
Album artwork for Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
LP

$26.99

Released 02/04/2022Catalog Number

045778757015

Learn more
Album artwork for Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
CD

$13.99

Released 03/23/2018Catalog Number

CD 87570

Learn more

Blue Valentine is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits is getting rawer and bluesier and title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwin’s “Somewhere”, and the beautiful piano ballad, “Kentucky Ave.”, but you also get the juke joint swagger of “Romeo Is Bleeding” and “Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard”. This is also the record that contains one of Waits’ most popular songs ever, “Christmas Card from A Hooker in Minneapolis”.