Tom Waits 1977 Performance Review

Double CD Set Featuring 2 Shows From The '77 Foreign Affairs Tour. Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977. Following the release of Foreign Affairs (1977), musically in a similar vein to Small Change but showing further artistic refinement and exploration into jazz and blues styles, Waits and the Nocturnals went out again to play a handful of gigs in support of the new album in October '77 - four to be precise! Two of these shows are contained on this double CD set. From 10th October at New York's legendary 'My Fathers Place' venue, out on the city's Long Island, comes the first of the two recordings, taken from a superb broadcast of proceedings transmitted across the area by local station WLIR-FM. The second show included is from a couple of weeks later, recorded at the equally famous Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, and featuring too a performance shared across the locale by way of another FM radio broadcast.