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Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits | 
 enlarge | Artists: Southside Johnny, La Bamba's Big Band
Label: Redeye Label
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2442
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 2008
UPC: 634457501324
EAN: 0634457501324
ASIN: B001C28Z8O
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Yesterday Is Here | | • | Down, Down, Down | | • | Walk Away | | • | Please Call Me, Baby | | • | Grapefruit Moon | | • | All The Time In The World | | • | Tango Till They're Sore | | • | Johnsburg, Illinois | | • | New Coat Of Paint | | • | Shiver Me Timbers | | • | Dead And Lovely | | • | Temptation |
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Album Description
Grapfruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits is Southside's tribute to one of his favorite songwriters, but also a pet sound: big band music. The idea to marry the brassy, ballsy sound of a big band to Tom Waits' cinematic, character-driven songs has been sitting in the back of Southside's mind for sometime.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 This music is beyond wonderful November 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of SSJ for many years. I didn't think I'd ever find anything to surpass Hearts of Stone, but this really does it. I've been ecstatically enjoying this record since I bought it, and so have many others - from my 17 year old daughter's friends, who say - "I thought he was black" to my 11 year old.
I can't do better than to quote from Mark Saleski's blog. Just google him.
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"There are times when a person experiences moments of such extreme happiness that it's difficult to contain the emotion. I suspect that even the most curmudgeonly people have them. I should know, because I have my moments of curmudgeon on a daily basis. Anyway...for me, this "super-happy" can feel like the top of my head popped off, letting a stream of brightly-colored prayer flags out, the message of bliss radiating out to the rest of the world."
That's how it made Mark Saleski feel, and that's how it makes me feel too.
 Dazzled... November 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a soft spot for Southside & co., and think the first three Jukes albums are great pieces, in the same way the first three Boz Scaggs albums on Columbia are great.
BUT...I never took him or the band entirely seriously; they were more in the line of 'real good local guys who got a big hand up from Springsteen and Van Zandt.' In other words, I was not entirely sure what Southside brought to the game.
I get it now; this is the work of considerable musicians who are technically solid, and loaded with soul - and with the kind of self control you only get on *great* big band records. Southside's a helluva singer, and gets to the heart of Waits' songs - if you can't hear the music in Waits' own records because the instruments or the singer are too eccentric for you, this is the cure.
The other thing this reminds me of, strangely, is Dylan's 'World Gone Wrong.' It's singer versus big mysteries, and everybody wins.
I can't think of the last time a new album moved me so much.
Scott Atkinson
Watertown NY
Grapefruit Moon November 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a Jersey Shore musician and fan of Southside and Tom Waits, I find this as one of the best albums he has ever done and the arrangements by La Bamba really show his skills as a new generation big band leader, reminds me of the great big bands of the early seventies ie: Chicago, Electric Flag, Al Kooper's Blood Sweat & Tears and I am not forgetting Buddy Rich and Maynard Furguson. All I have to say is what a shot in the arm for Southside,La Bamba, and lets not forget Tom Waits.This really brings his talent as a songwriter and poet to another level.
What a great album October 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tom Waits and Southside Johnny Lyon. The imagry is undeniably gritty. In your mind's eye you can see two guys in a dark old man's bar. They'll be sitting in either a booth in the corner or at the end of the bar; either way, they're be in shadow. You also will avoid eye contact 'cause there's nothing but toughness to be seen here. And yet, you're talking about the men that gave us 'Jersey Girl' and 'Hearts of Stone,' so they are capable of wearing their hearts on their sleeves.
This album has been of pet project of Southside for a while. First as a dream and then as a genuine recording effort in 2005 and 2006. But, Southside Johnny covering Tom Waits wasn't going to be a walk in the park. A walk along the boardwalk early Sunday morning after the bars and clubs have closed or along an alley under the same conditions; those could be the case. Now, let's add a big band sound to it...really heavy horn section led by long-time partner Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg. That puts yet another twist on the songs of the enigmatic Mr. Waits and the blues wail of Mr. Lyon. The fact that it has been released says buckets about Southside's opinion of Tom Waits. I have to wonder what Waits thinks of this effort. Hopefully, he will see it as the act of love and respect that - to my mind - it is.
The result: one excellent recording.
 La SouthSide October 8, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This CD is more about LaBamba's band than it is hearing Southside Johnny singing Tom Waits. I really wanted to hear Southside's take on Waltzing Matilda but that would be too slow and wouldn't fit the flavor of the CD.
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