Drum roll please.....
Tom Waits - Closing Time
This week I'm going to bring you three from the timeless legend that is Tom Waits.
In fact I'm going to do a series of Tom Waits Three Tune Tuesday posts over the coming weeks.
This week the songs will all come from Tom's masterpiece Closing Time and here is my first choice, the title track and final track on the album Closing Time.
Tom Waits - Ice Cream Man
I love this one!
It's the first Tom Waits song that I ever heard and loved it on the first listen and it still feels fresh all these years later.
That piano intro and then straight into those drums and vibes.
Tune and a half.
Tom Waits - Ol' 55
“Ol’ '55” was one of the first songs Waits ever wrote after moving to Los Angeles, and it was inspired by driving home in the early morning after spending the night with a lover he has said in interviews.
It's the opener of this first studio album from 1973.
That's over 50 years ago folks!!!
I've never seen Tom perform live, but he's certainly on my list of want to see lives.
Three Tune Tuesday
That's right, it's Tuesday folks and for our merry little band of ladies and lads, that means sharing tunes, good vibes and engagement. As another week disappears in the rearview mirror, we have loads of engagement and tunes flying around on Three Tune Tuesday and sure isn't that bloody fantastic! I hope you're ready to share three tunes from wherever you find yourself on this magical spinning lump of rock that we all call home and sure you might even sing us a tune if we're lucky?
It's a time of the week when lovers of music, tunes and craic bring their blockchain community three of their finest and brightest tunes to share and celebrate, so let's roll on and let the tunes flow free.
This is my 227th week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday and we are still going strong.
It started off with me just sharing tunes into what seemed like a void, but little by little others joined and now I'm thrilled that we have a little corner of Hive where we come and share our tunes every Tuesday, and long may it continue. I almost stopped posting the songs and thoughts a few times, but I stuck with it and now interestingly it is my favorite thing about Hive. I love music and now I have a network of folks around the world who love music too and we share our tunes and catch up with each others tunes and discuss them each week. We get Pop, Metal, Rock, Gospel, Folk, Jazz, Rap, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Reggae, Bippy bappidy Flange Hop. Ok I made that one up, but you get the idea, we are all learning about new artists, bands, back stories and sure isn't it just mighty!
Something that excites me the most is that we even get musicians sharing their covers of famous songs and even their own songs from time to time here on #ThreeTuneTuesday, which is a real favorite of mine, as that takes talent, time and dedication.
We are adding New posters and retaining our core of regulars here on #TTT which is fantastic. Let's keep it growing. Over the years, I have listened to fantastic music shared from like-minded folk from around the globe and interacted with their posts. This has led me to genres I don't know well and to some amazing new bands and artists and has even introduced me to some musical instruments I did not know existed. It also allows me to upvote smaller accounts and find some really interesting people from all over the world, which is heartening.
I hope you enjoy the tunes - be sure to tell me all about it in the comments below and above all else, please enjoy the rest of your Tuesday - smile at a stranger, rub a dog, be a nice human to someone who was not expecting it - peace out.
For those unfamiliar with TTT or Three Tune Tuesday....
The jist is as follows
Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Better still, why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and upvote it. If you could also use #threetunetuesday tag that would be great, as that is what I use when sifting through all the entries every Wednesday. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music. You'll also be in with a chance of winning the prize - more on that later.
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Share your Three Tune Tuesday songs below or create a post with #ttt or #threetunetuesday and mention me so I can find the post.
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Sin é, That's all folks, thanks for stopping by.
That's it for another week. Those are your three songs for this week. Let me know what you think - good, bad or indifferent? Did you like them all or just one or two?
Also, as I said before, I love getting good steers for new tunes, so please tell me about the latest and greatest from your playlist below and I'll be sure to check em out.
The YouTube videos shared are not owned by me and I am simply sharing great music with the community here on Hive
Thanks as always for stopping by everyone and a big shout out to @stickupcurator whose continued generous support to #ttt is noticed and truly appreciated - thanks gents.
Peace Out
In closing time...
Is that a harmonica?
Crazy playing man😂😂✨🔥
He is God. And he is a clown or better say: mime, comedian. And he is a bit crazy yeah.
Yep, all that and more
Sure is. He's a great musician, well worth checking out his stuff
Good music selection, as always. I really liked Closing Time: a very beautiful instrumental piece. Greetings, my friend
Do check Leo Cohen's 'Closing Time'. 🙂
Thanks Nancy, his early stuff will be your cup of tea 👍🏻
O-ooo! nice to see your Waits selection. I see you prefer his early years; mine would be definitely pretty different to yours. I prefer older / his more avantgarde stuff.
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Hey man, my plan is to do a ThreeTuneTuesday post per album for a few weeks, this post only covers Closing Time 👌
...for each album in his discography? so, more to follow? nice.
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Good selection. My husband is a big fan of Tom Waits. I love Hold On, it's one of my favorite songs of Waits.
I like the selection you've made from the beginning of his career. My favorite of these is Ol' 55.
That hubby of yours has good taste 😁
I really like Tom Waits, a proper musician. Whacky, bizarre, intelligent, funny, intense, a wordsmith
Love me some Tom Waits! Good choice!!! 🎸🔥
It’s funny, unlike most I discovered him from when he was on Epitaph records, the nineties punk label bands like offspring started on and Rancid. He did I think two albums for the label and was on these punk comps randomly. Then I dug deeper..
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Interesting is right! I happened upon him when I got a lift from a friend one time many years ago. He gad a bunch of CDs on his passenger seat, and Tom Waits was one. I asked whose this? He said throw it on. I liked what I heard and bought an album soon after and so started my collection..
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