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Tom Waits: Foreign Affairs

29 August 1977 · 50 YEARS

Foreign Affairs

Tom Waits

Produced by Bones Howe, the album plays like a late-night radio broadcast. It occupies a space between the piano-bar troubadour style and more experimental, percussive textures.

Bette Midler provides a foil to the grit of the record on the track I Never Talk to Strangers. The songwriting relies on beatnik nostalgia and cinematic portraits of people wandering through shadows.

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