{"product_id":"lp-tom-waits-rain-dogs","title":"LP - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs","description":"1 LP \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNoted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRain Dogs\u003c\/span\u003e follows the new musical path Waits had taken with \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSwordfishtrombones\u003c\/span\u003e. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSwordfishtrombones\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFranks Wild Years\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRain Dogs\u003c\/span\u003e is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRain Dogs\u003c\/span\u003e 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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKeith Richards\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarc Ribot\u003c\/span\u003e) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus—and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHang Down Your Head\u003c\/span\u003e,” and the moving anthem, “\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDowntown Train\u003c\/span\u003e,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWaits coined the term, “rain dog,” a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album: gruff, wandering merchant marines (“\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingapore\u003c\/span\u003e”), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (“\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCemetery Polka\u003c\/span\u003e”), a “jockey full of bourbon” (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (“\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e”), a “gun street girl,” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself: \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAboard a shipwreck train \/ Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs \/ For I am a Rain Dog, too. \u003c\/span\u003e. .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally 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 \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChris Bellman\u003c\/span\u003e at \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBernie Grundman Mastering\u003c\/span\u003e under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKarl Derfler. \u003c\/span\u003eThe album packaging has also been restored. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRain Dogs\u003c\/span\u003e includes tracks such as “Downtown Train,” “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full Of Bourbon.” Available on 180g black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Encore Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58218030137727,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/0525\/5551\/files\/B1Tl-EQO5kL._AC_SL1500_f27efa8d-0689-436c-997d-9017642e8be8.jpg?v=1787207148","url":"https:\/\/thevinyltable.com\/products\/lp-tom-waits-rain-dogs","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}