Waiting For Clearance - Freelance Hellraiser (The)

Advantages: More exciting music
Disadvantages: Not for everybody

...of this time. Musicians travelled from city to city, court to court taking with them the tunes that they had learned and learning new ones. That is why the titles may look so strange. English trying to put French or German titles into English and vice versa. The Waits are; Anthony Barton Cornett, mute cornett, Flemish bagpipe, saggbut, tenor crumhorn, recorder, drums, tambourine. Tim Bayley Soprano shawm, sopranino and soprano capped shawm, hurdy-gurdy, alto curtal, alto crumhorn, flute, recorder, drum. William Marshall Saggbut, tenor flute, bass crumhorn, recorders. James Merryweather Soprano, alto & tenor shawms, Flemish & English bagpipes, bass & gedackt bass curtals, tenor crumhorn, recorders. Ian Richardson Bass shawm, bass curtal, soprano crumhorn, bass flute, recorders, garklien flotlein, hurdy-gurdy, drum. Roger... Read review

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Advantages: Compilation of all of Waits greatest early work
Disadvantages: Doesn't include The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me

...-line. The story of a night on the road …”the radio’s gone off the air, gives you time to think…” and Waits catalogues all he sees. This moves nicely into the second track (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night, where Waits brings in the guitars and a quite beautiful vocal line. One of the most haunting and hummable tracks on the album. Finally, we leave our rainy Saturday night behind with the track The Ghosts of Saturday Night, a piano-led ballad of pure melancholy …”Cab combs the snake, trying to rake in that last nights fare… and a solitary sailor who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers”… Small Change offers up: Tom Traubert’s Blues (probably the greatest Waits moment, I defy anyone not to feel the hair on the back of their neck stand up as our world-wearied hero coughs out his woes. It was the first line of this song... Read review

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Advantages: Soulful real music
Disadvantages: It's an old pressing

...wandering into the daybreak, I learn as I go, to fall laughing into the water” at the end of the word “water” a snare drum is struck 3 times then a single boom of a bass sound then back to the snare “the sticks and the stones, are your broken promises, we wait too long to go from rags to riches” at the end of every line the snare device is used giving the delivered lines potency, another keyboard has been added so as he sings “I am in Love, I am in Love, in Love with a feeling, the wild wild sky , the wild wild sky, fences and tumbled down bridges, surround and divide, I wear a coat of many colours, of many colours the sticks and the stones, are broken promises, I wait no longer to go from rags to riches” adding to the drama, a keyboard trumpet sound is used for the bridge along with previous parts... Read review

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