Expanding beyond the folk and pop stylings of his first album, “Heart of Saturday Night,“ Waits’ second studio release, established his reputation as a versatile and distinctly American songwriter. Its bluesy jazz arrangements featured bass, drums, sax and Waits on piano. The title track, a melancholy ode to Saturday night rituals, and the tenderly romantic hymn-like “San Diego Serenade” are enduring classics covered by an array of artists from Diana Krall and Nancy Griffith to folk hero Eric Anderson. The album also features the first of what would become a signature for Waits’, the spoken word-poetry song, “Diamonds on My Windshield”. Waits’ delivers these lyrics as pure beat jazz in the stylings of Kerouac , Langston Hughes and Bob Kaufman.

A1 New Coat Of Paint 
A2 San Diego Serenade 
A3 Semi Suite 
A4 Shiver Me Timbers 
A5 Diamonds On My Windshield 
A6 (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night 
B1 Fumblin' With The Blues 
B2 Please Call Me, Baby 
B3 Depot, Depot 
B4 Drunk On The Moon 
B5 The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House)