Rain Dogs - 2023 European Universal label 19-track LP Reissue

Noted as Tom Waits' most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical "Canterbury Tales" with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus - and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways.

Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½" flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1.    Singapore
2.    Clap Hands
3.    Cemetery Polka
4.    Jockey Full Of Bourbon
5.    Tango Till They're Sore
6.    Big Black Mariah
7.    Diamonds And Gold
8.    Hang Down Your Head
9.    Time

Side 2:
10.    Rain Dogs
11.    Midtown
12.    9th & Hennepin
13.    Gun Street Girl
14.    Union Square
15.    Blind Love
16.    Walking Spanish
17.    Downtown Train
18.    Bride Of Rain Dog
19.    Anywhere I Lay My Head

Release date: September 1 - 2023