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capturing the glory of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out all the while securing their spot with a new generation of fans

and finding her musical feet

About moving on to better things

Standout tracks like these show Mac’s widening sound

with family friend Phil Ek manning the rudder

Blue Valentine LP (Color) fg_Genre_Rock capturing the glory of ABlue 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