Tom Waits "Small Change (50th Anniversary)" COLOR:180g Aquamarine Since it's initial release

Since it's initial release

Richly rendered worlds are built in the interplay between Davies's guitar and the dueling synthesizers played by the Carpenters

it's interrupted by what sounds like an alien choir before they let rip

The result is a statement-making collection of razor-sharp songs from an artist set free by being his authentic self

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Tom Waits "Small Change (50th Anniversary)" COLOR:180g Aquamarine Since it's initial releaseRemastered and reissued on Anti, Small Change is the fourth release in Tom Waits' series of skid row travelogues. It proves to be the archetypal album of his '70s work. A jazz trio comprising tenor sax player Lew Tabackin, bassist Jim Hughart, and drummer Shelly Manne, plus an occasional string section, back Waits and his piano on songs steeped in whiskey and atmosphere. He alternately sings in his broken beaned drunk's voice (now deeper and overtly