Recorded in front of a live audience at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles in 1975, Nighthawks debuts some of Waits' greatest classics with a crack Jazz band backing him up and some of the greatest stage patter ever committed to record.
The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, originally released in 1974. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The album cover is based on In the Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra.
Various artists musically interpret poems from "The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971" on this 40th Anniversary Tribute to Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America.