Tom Waits: Los Angeles Is Poetry

LA Free Press January 17, 1975
Marco Barla

“You know there’s a blurred drizzle down a plate glass, there’s a neon swizzle stick a-stirrin’ up a sultry night air, and a traffic jam…

THE HISTORY OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL

"Today the halls of the Chelsea Hotel are salted with dust. The hundreds of paintings that adorned its walls have been locked away in storage. The doors to abandoned apartments are whitewashed and padlocked.…

TRACK LIST

  1.  Darkness Darkness 

  2.  Smug 

  3.  On Sir Francis Drake 

  4.  Sunlight 

  5.  Double Sunlight 

  6.  Beautiful 

  7.  Turn it Over 

  8.  Don't Let The Rain Get You Down 

  9.  Trillum 

10.  Quicksand 

11.  Black Mountain Breakdown 

12.…