{"product_id":"tom-waits-rain-dogs","title":"Tom Waits- Rain Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel: Island\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReissued 9\/22\/2023, Originally released 1985\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNoted 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. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack listing:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingapore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClap Hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCemetery Polka\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJockey Full of Bourbon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTango Till They're Sore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBig Black Mariah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiamonds \u0026amp; Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHang Down Your Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRain Dogs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMidtown (Instrumental)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9th \u0026amp; Hennepin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGun Street Girl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnion Square\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlind Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalking Spanish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDowntown Train\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBride of Rain Dogs (Instrumental)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnywhere I Lay My Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Waiting Room Records","offers":[{"title":"180g LP","offer_id":39474286428275,"sku":"","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/4315\/0908\/files\/B1Tl-EQO5kL._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1695339108","url":"https:\/\/waitingroomrecords.com\/products\/tom-waits-rain-dogs","provider":"Waiting Room Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}