Blue Valentine LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_122 and Sonic Youth

and Sonic Youth

helping define the shape of the genre for a new generation of fans

Recorded live during their 2016 European tour at shows in Germany

and the Edgar Broughton Band's Wasa Wasa

” which he describes as “a song about redemption and how life sometimes feels like one long fall from grace

Blue Valentine LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_122 and Sonic YouthBlue Valentine (1978) is a big departure from earlier Waits albums. Trading the piano for the guitar, Waits gets rawer and bluesier and the title track is a great example of this. Waits is in transition here, so you also get a stunning orchestrated rendition of Gershwins Somewhere, and the beautiful piano ballad, Kentucky Ave., but you also get the juke joint swagger of Romeo Is Bleeding and Whistlin Past the Graveyard. This is also the record that