Personnel: Jacqueline Thompson
" As sometimes happens on a Rhino set
even though there ironically isn't that much substance beneath the surface
the adventurous UK avant-garde act Renaldo & The Loaf ( rst introduced to the world by The Residents through their label Ralph Records) took to the stage to perform their music live for the rst time in their then thirty-eight year career
cast the musicians' loose-yet-tight interplay in a kind of gauze that adds to a solitary feeling verging on claustrophobic
Nighthawks on the Radio: KNEW-FM Broadcast, December 8, 1976 RHINO/WARNER BROS. Personnel: Jacqueline ThompsonIn 1976, Tom Waits was promoting his fourth album, Small Change, when he popped into a New York recording studio with WNEW FM radio host Vin Scelsa to do an interview and play a few songs. Waits was in a rare mood and delivered an intimate hourlong performance, in which he offered stripped down but passionate versions of 11 of his songs, accompanied only by Ralph Elber on drums, as Waits added off the cuff lyrics on several songs and spun tall tales