Closing Time

Tom Waits
Label
Asylum · SD 5061
Released
1973
Format
stereo
Pressing
original
Genre
Rock

His debut. Three Waits records now, all original-era. Asylum’s catalogue prefix changed from SD to 7E between this and Nighthawks, so the three also track the label’s own numbering.

Musically the earliest of the three: a piano-and-strings singer-songwriter record produced by Jerry Yester, before the horns and upright bass arrived.

Original-era US pressing, Specialty Records Corp.