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The Dime Store Novels Vol. 1--Live at Ebbets Field (2002)

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WORTH THE WAITS An import takes us back to 1974

Tom Waits: Robert Durrell/Los Angeles Times/Retna

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Release Date: Jan 15, 2002; Lead Performance: Tom Waits; Genre: Rock

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By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

Remember when Waits' voice was just severely sandpapery, before he started going for that industrial-drilling thing? Revisit those tender years on this import-only live album, reviving a 1974 solo appearance broadcast on the radio in Denver. No one would argue that The Dime Store is Waits' most astonishing hour; it's his second set, and he admits to what sounds like two dozen paying customers that he ''shot [his] wad'' in the first. But that allows for some odd song choices, and for fans, it's a welcome trip back to his barely more conventional fisherman-boho years.

Posted Jan 18, 2002

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