Blue Valentine LP (Color) fg_Release Date_2003-09-23 from the shivery ballad ‘God

from the shivery ballad ‘God Lifts Up the Lowly’ (which includes a verse in Hebrew) to the exquisite ‘Psalm 151’ and the line “I believe in God but I don’t believe we’re getting out of this one” in ‘Come Here Get Away From Me’

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but on this one Isaiah really brought his own pizazz and flavor to it

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Blue Valentine LP (Color) fg_Release Date_2003-09-23 from the shivery ballad ‘GodBlue 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