Swordfishtrombones
Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, rel… Read Full Bio ↴Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983. It was the first album that Waits produced himself and is marked as such by a sense of artistic freedom that would increasingly characterize his later work.

Stylistically different from his previous LPs, Swordfishtrombones moves away from the piano and string orchestra arrangements of the late seventies replacing them instead with unusual instrumentation and a somewhat more abstract songwriting approach.

Swordfishtrombones peaked at #164 on Billboard's Pop Albums and Billboard 200 albums chart.

In 1989, Spin Magazine named Swordfishtrombones the second greatest album of all time.
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Swordfishtrombones
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Johnsburg, Illinois She's my Only true love She's all that I think of Look here …
Shore Leave Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart I rolled…
Soldier's Things Davenports and kettle drums and swallow tail coats table clo…
Swordfishtrombone Well, he came home from the war With a party in…
Town With No Cheer Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces There'll…
Trouble's Braids Well I pulled on trouble's braids and I hid in the…
Underground Rattle big black bones in the danger zone There's a rumblin'…


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