Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) is TWs third studio album...sort of. NatD was recorded in Record Plant Studios but was recorded over two nights in front of four separate live audiences. Four shows over two nights, with a stripper as the warmup act for every show. If I had produced this album it would have been really difficult not to put that little voice-over clip from 90's sitcoms before the first track: "Tom Waits is recorded before a live studio audience."
Anyway, this is TWs second record with Bones Howe acting as producer. It seems, at least according to the good multitudes over at Wikipedia, that Bones himself had a more central role in picking the band and arranger for this record, which (hopefully) will account for an improvement over the sound of The Heart of Saturday Night.
I've never heard this one before at all, so it's all new to me, I'm told by acquaintances that it's a very funny record, with lots of good crowd banter. That's promising. We'll see, I guess. Nighthawks: Day 1 is upcoming.
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