This article is about the album by Tom Waits. For the painting by Edward Hopper, see Nighthawks (painting).
1975 studio album by Tom Waits
Nighthawks at the Diner
Studio album by
Tom Waits
Released
October 21, 1975 (1975-10-21)
Recorded
July 30–31, 1975
Venue
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles
Genre
Spoken word
jazz
Length
73:54
Label
Asylum
Producer
Bones Howe
Tom Waits chronology
The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
Nighthawks at the Diner (1975)
Small Change (1976)
Nighthawks at the Diner is the third studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 1975 on Asylum Records.[1] It was recorded over four sessions in July in the Los Angeles Record Plant studio in front of a small invited audience set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz club.[2] The album peaked at 164 on the Billboard 200,[3] the highest place Waits had held at the time, and is currently certified silver by the BPI.[4] It has received critical acclaim for its successful mood-setting, capturing of the jazz-club atmosphere[5] and characterization.[6]
^"Releases". Anti-. p. 1. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
^Hoskyns, Barney (2011). Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. Faber and Faber. p. 132. ISBN 9780571261246.
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^Janovitz, Bill. "Warm Beer and Cold Women – Tom Waits". AllMusic. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
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