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Nighthawks at the Diner has been remastered and reissued on Anti. For his third album, Tom Waits set up a nightclub in the studio, invited an audience, and cut a 70-minute, two-LP set of new songs.

It's an appropriate format for compositions that deal even more graphically and, for the first time, humorously with Waits' late-night world of bars and diners. The love lyrics of his debut album had long since given way to a comic lonely-guy stance glimpsed in "Emotional Weather Report" and "Better Off Without a Wife."

But what really matters is the elaborate scene-setting of songs like the six-and-a-half-minute "Spare Parts," the seven-and-a-half-minute "Putnam County," and especially the 11-and-a-half-minute "Nighthawk Postcards" that are essentially poetry recitations with jazz backing.

Waits is a colorful tour guide of midnight L.A., raving over a swinging rhythm section of Jim Hughart (bass) and Bill Goodwin (drums), with Pete Christlieb wailing away on tenor sax between paragraphs and Mike Melvoin trading off with Waits on piano runs.

Track list:

Side A
1. Opening Intro
2. Emotional Weather Report
3. Intro
4. On a Foggy Night
5. Intro
6. Eggs and Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)

Side B
7. Intro
8. Better Off Without A Wife
9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

Side C
10. Intro
11. Warm Beer and Cold Women
12. Intro
13. Putnam County
14. Spart Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)

Side D
15. Nobody
16.Intro
17. Big Joe and Phantom 309
18. Spare Parts II and Closing

2025 Anti

11/2025