Tom Waits

Tom Waits rightly earned an Academy Award nomination for this thoroughly romantic score for the once-scorned Francis Ford Coppola musical. At the time, some scoffed at the choice of Crystal Gayle as Waits' duet partner, but she makes a perfect foil for the eccentric songwriter -- these two truly sound like oddly matched lovers with a rocky but tender history.

Tom Waits' 1982 soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's offbeat musical is a smooth-sailing
counterpart to a beautiful car crash of a movie. Recorded before Waits' raspy croon
turned into a hacking cough, this is the singer-songwriter's sweetest jazz, and duetting
partner Crystal Gayle similarly turns in her juiciest performance ever. This expanded,
remastered edition exudes so much live-in-the-studio presence that it practicall... More >