Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine (VG/VG+) – LP, US 1980

Heartattack And Vine is an LP by Tom Waits from 1980 released on the Asylum Records label.

About this album

Heartattack and Vine finds Tom Waits refining his smoky, hard-living persona into one of his most distinctive late-70s statements. Issued in 1980, the album leans on blues rock, piano laments and streetwise vignettes, with Waits balancing barroom swagger against worn-out tenderness. Songs such as the title track, Downtown and Jersey Girl helped cement his reputation for writing about night people, losers and the overlooked with equal parts rough humour and heartbreak. The record sits at a pivotal point before his later, more experimental turn, and remains a key example of how he turned beat-poet character studies into cult American songcraft.

Genre: Pop & Rock

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