The Vinyl Countdown # 833

Tom Waits, Closing Time (1973)

This one is always the way back in for me. I give up on Tom Waits for years at a time now, well months and months…and then I find my way back. And this album is the first step. It was of course his first step, but not the first Tom Waits album I heard. Just the one that spoke to me straight away, on first listen, and seemed…