The Heart Of Saturday Night: Preview

My hope for these short Wednesday Previews is that I can get all the information about my prior relationship to a record out in them, plus a little factual information about the record, so that I don't have to waste any time or space on that stuff throughout the week spent with said record.

The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) is TW's second studio album. I think it's the first TW record I had in it's entirety but I never really got past the first track so it is largely uncharted territory for this blogger.

That first track, "New Coat of Paint" has been a favorite of mine for several years, and is a great little minor blues jam to break out at a party (if you're the kind of guy who breaks out minor blues jams at parties...). Wikipedia tells me that this record was TW's highest ranked record on Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time, so if the suits at Rolling Stone Magazine are to be trusted this is the pinnacle of TW's career. On said list it sits two spots above Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell and a good twelve below Ms. Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, so that's the range we're working with.

Arbitrary corporate-friendly lists aside, I don't have a lot of information to give you about this record. It was TW's first collaboration with producer Bones Howe, the two worked together for a long time, but eventually split around the time TW got married to Kathleen Brennan (but that's another story). Anyway, that's what we have to look forward to tomorrow and for the next week. Thanks for reading and tell your friends!

-K