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"The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)", often referred to as "The Piano Has Been Drinking", is a song written and performed by Tom Waits. The song first appeared on his 1976 album Small Change , and an extended live version on the 1981 compilation album Bounced Checks .
Waits recorded the album in reaction to these hardships. This is evident in the pessimism and cynicism that pervade the record, with many songs, such as "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" presenting a bare and honest portrayal of alcoholism, while also cementing Waits' hard-living reputation in the eyes of many fans.
Waits' first national tour coincided with the album's release and ran from April to June 1973. The band consisted of Waits on vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, Bob Webb on double bass, Rich Phelps on trumpet, and John Forsha on guitar. The tour started at The Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., with Waits opening for Tom Rush.
Recorded amidst a stretch of hard touring and hard-drinking, it may be Waits’ booziest album, from the drunken Danish escapades of his signature ballad “Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to ...
Arguably his first masterpiece, the album featured exquisite piano ballads such as 'Tom Traubert's Blues' and ‘The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),’ the word-jazz of ‘Pasties and a G-String,’ and the tour-de-force tenor-sax-accompanied hucksterism of ‘Step Right Up.’” [1] He received growing press attention, being profiled in ...
"Walk Away Renée" is a song written by Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone for the band the Left Banke, released as a single in July 1966. Steve Martin Caro is featured on lead vocals. It spent 13 weeks on the US charts, with a top spot of No. 5. [6] The song has been widely considered a quintessence of the baroque pop genre. [7]
The set is a collection of 26 rare and 30 brand new songs (there are two hidden tracks on disc 3). Each disc is intended as a separate collection in itself; the first with roughcut rock and blues, the second melancholy tunes and ballads, and the third the more experimental songs and spoken word pieces.
Acoustic Guitar - Tom Waits, Roland Bautista, Peter Klimes; Electric Guitar - Tom Waits, Ray Crawford, Roland Bautista, Alvin "Shine" Robinson; Bass - Jim Hughart, Larry Taylor, Greg Cohen, Scott Edwards, Bill Plummer; Piano - Tom Waits, Ronnie Barron, Harold Battiste; Electric Piano - DaWillie Gonga, Mike Melvoin; Organ - Charles Kynard